Corporate Spies

Criminals and Rogues

Criminal Nemeses

Crimefighters

Classical Investigators

Sergeant  Frank Abbott (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Constable Dortemus "Dort" Adams (created by A. Carman Clark);

Frankie Aguirre, an F.B.I. agent (created by Ryne Douglas Pearson);

Malcolm Ainslie (created by Arthur Hailey);

Sheriff Rocky Allan (created by Virginia Rath);

Detective David Alvarez;

Sheriff Spencer Arrowood (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Detective Ray Attla (created by Dana Stabenow);

Detective Barbara Babalino (created by Tom Philbin);

Special Detective Mars Bahr (created by Kj Erickson);

Sheriff Joe Bain (created by John H. Vance);

Sheriff Johnelle Baker (created by John Miles);

Detective Harry Ball (created by Barbara Yager Witten);

Police Chief Mario Balzic (created by K.C. Constantine);

Detective Barelli (created by Yvonne Montgomery);

Detective Ray Bartell (created by Robert Sims Read);

Mark Beamon, an F.B.I. agent (created by Kyle Mills);

Sheriff's Deputy Jason Beard (created by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.);

Detective J.P. Beaumont (created by J.A. Jance);

John Becker, an F.B.I. agent (created by David Wiltse);

Detective Sy Beckman (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Norm Benn (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Chief Reid Bennett (created by Ted Wood);

Officer Judy Best (created by Stephen Cook);

Deputy Billy Birdsong (created by Douglas McBriarty);

Lobo Black (created by William DeAndrea);

Detective Sonora Blair (created by Lynn Hightower);

Detective Lee Blanchard (created by James Ellroy);

Detective Bucky Bleichert (created by James Ellroy);

Detective Harry Bliss (created by R.D. Brown);

Sergeant John Bogdanovic (created by H. Paul Jeffers);

Officer Orin Boyd (created by John Westermann);

Detective Lou Boldt (created by Ridley Pearson);

Detective Harry Bosch (created by Michael Connelly);

Sheriff Carl Boxruud (created by Mabel Seeley);

Sheriff Joanna Brady (created by J.A. Jance);

Sheriff Grover Bramlett (created by John Armistead);

Chief Tim Brennan (created by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman);

Sergeant Dave Brichter (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Officer Annie Broussard (created by Tami Hoag);

Detective Arthur Brown (created by Ed McBain);

Ricardo Bueno (created by Richard and Frances Lockridge);

Detective Eileen Burke (created by Ed McBain);

Anton Burns, a special agent with a state police force (created by Clinton McKinzie);

Chief Mitch Bushyhead (created by Jean Hager);

Deputy Brigham Bybee (created by John Gates);

Inspector Byrnes (created by Julian Hawthorne);

Lieutenant Peter Byrnes (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Mitch Calhoun (created by Christiane Heggan);

Dirty Harry Callahan [films] (created by Harry and R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, and John Milius);

Nora Callum (created by Thomas McCall);

Detective Steve Carella (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci (created by K.C. Constantine);

Lieutenant Carreau (created by Daniel Broun);

Charlie Chan (created by Earl Derr Biggers);

Sheriff Chick Charleston (created by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.);

Chief Alden Chase (created by Theodora Wender);

Detective Marc Chastain (created by Linda Howard);

Jimmy Chee (created by Tony Hillerman);

Detective Orson Cheever (created by Alan Russell);

Margaret Chisholm an FBI agent (created by Gonzalo Lira);

Officer Ella Clah (created by Aimee and David Thurlo);

Lieutenant Clancy (created by Robert L. Pike);

Inspector Clarke (Patrick Quentin);

Jeffery Clayton, an expert on serial killers (created by John Katzenbach);

Sheriff Jules Clement (created by Jamie Harrison);

Inspector Cobb (created by Jonathan Stagge);

Sheriff Lewis Cody (created by William S. Slusher);

Commander Larry Cole (created by Hugh Holton);

Jesse James Colson (created by John P. Cooke);

Thatcher Colt (created by Anthony Abbot);

Lieutenant Columbo [television] (created by William Link and Richard Levinson; William Harrington);

Commissioner John Comaday (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Steve Conway (created by Earle Basinsky);

State Trooper Dayton Coop (created by Lydia Adamson);

Detective John Corey (created by Nelson DeMille);

Detective Fey Croaker (created by Paul Bishop);

Alex Cross (created by James Patterson);

Joe Cullen (created by Jerry Oster);

Lieutenant Eve Dallas (created by J.D. Robb);

Joe Dante (created by C. Newman);

Detective Lucas Davenport (created by John Sandford);

Lieutenant Bill Decker (created by Lawrence Treat);

Detective Peter Decker (created by Faye Kellerman);

Ryker Delany (created by Mary Lynn Baxter);

Captain Edward X. Delaney (created by Lawrence Sanders);

Detective Kate Delafield (created by Katherine Forrest);

Detective Frank De Sales (created by Thomas Boyle);

Mike Devlin, an FBI agent (created by Paul Lindsay);

Detective Paul Devlin (created by William Heffernan);

Sheriff Steve Dillon (created by Anna Katharine Green);

Bill Donovan, Chief of Special Investigations (created by Michael Jahn);

Detective Jim Donovan (created by Michael Jahn);

Sergeant Vince Dowling (created by Jack Mullen);

Popeye Doyle (created by Ernest Tidyman);

Inspector Dundee (created by Anne Austin);

Gabriel Du Pree, part-time sheriff's deputy (created by Peter Bowen);

Detective Jack Eichord (created by Rex Miller);

Chief Fred Fellows (created by Hillary Waugh);

Suze Figueroa (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Detective Fiona Fitzgerald (created by Warren Adler);

Adam Flint [television--The Naked City];

Officer Mike Flint (created by R. Austin Healy);

Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn (created by Gregory MacDonald);

Joseph Flynn, an F.B.I. agent (created by Michael Newton);

Detective Terry Flynn (created by Bill Granger);

Chief John Folger (created by Francine Mathews);

Detective Merry Folger (created by Francine Mathews);

State Police Officer Brett Fortesque (created by Valerie Wolzien);

Detective Cesar Frank (created by A.M. Pyle);

Benny Freedman (created by Milton Bass);

Jub Freeman (created by Lawrence Treat);

Lieutenant Bill French (created by Christopher Hale);

Sergeant Joe Friday [television] (created by Jack Webb);

Sheriff Matt Gabriel (created by Paula Gosling);

Lorenzo Garcia (created by R.J. Hamilton);

Lupe Garcia (created by Doug Allyn);

Lee Garrett (created by Fred Bean);

Chief Reb Gassler (created by Deborah Adams);

Undersheriff Bill Gastner (created by Steven F. Havill);

Lieutenant Karl Genesko (created by Susan Holtzer);

Will Gentry (created by Brett Halliday);

Cuthbert Gibbons, an undercover FBI agent (created by Anthony Bruno);

Federal Marshall Raylan Givens (created by Elmore Leonard);

Abe Glitsky (created by John T. Lescroart);

Inspector Glover (created by March Evermay);

Lieutenant Max Gold (created by Octavus Roy Cohen);

Detective Sammy Golden (created by Jack Webb);

Detective Harry Golding (created by Howard Fast);

P.J. Gray (created by Shirley Kennett);

Detective Noah Green (created by Nat Hentoff);

Detective Joe Gregory (created by Ed Dee);

Inspector Gridley (created by Ruth Fenisong);

Detective Lew Griffin (created by James Sallis);

Elenezer Gryce (created by Anna Katherine Green);

Detective Joe Gunther (created by Archer Mayor);

Satan Hall (created by Carroll John Daly);

Chief Judy Hammer (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Police Chief Arly Hanks (created by Joan Hess);

Deputy Gabriel Hanna (created by Micah S. Hackler);

Lieutenant Sigrid Harald (created by Margaret Maron);

Detective Kate Harrod (created by Laura Coburn);

Chip Harrison (created by Lawrence Block);

Commander Frank Hastings (created by Colilin Wilcox);

Detective Cotton Hawes (created by Ed McBain);

Tony Hawkins, an F.B.I. agent (created by Harry Harrison);

Detective Stuart Haydon (created by David Lindsey);

Sergeant Ernest Heath (created by S.S. Van Dine);

Detective Jake Hines (created by Elizabeth Gunn);

Detective Neil Hockaday (created by Thomas Adcock);

Joe Holden (created by Milton M. Raison);

Tad Honeywell (created by Grace F. Edwards);

Detective Lloyd Hopkins (created by James Ellroy);

Deputy Sheriff Marty Hopkins (created by P.M. Carlson);

Sergeant Helen Horowitz (created by David Delman);

Lieutenant Jacob Horowitz (created by David Delman);

Detective Hudlow (created by Paul W. Valentine);

Lieutenant Max Hunter (created by Willis Todhunter Ballard);

Lieutenant A. Jackson (created by Anthony Boucher);

William "Tough" Jackson (created by Warren Murphy);

Chief of Detectives Harvey Jacobs (created by H. Paul Jeffries);

Detective Frank Janek (created by William Bayer);

Officer Cliff Janeway (created by John Dunning);

Lieutenant Oliver Jardine (created by Kate Green);

Elena Jarvis (created by Nancy Herndon);

Art Jefferson, an F.B.I. agent (created by Ryne Douglas Pearson);

State Trooper Alex Jenson (created by Sue Henry);

Inspector Jervis (created by Q. Patrick);

Coffin Ed Johnson (created by Chester Himes);

Detective Johnson (created by Paul W. Valentine);

Grave Digger Jones (created by Chester Himes);

Deputy Sheriff Berkley Jordon (created by Frank C. Strunk);

Detective Milo Kachigan (created by Karen Rose Cercone);

Detective Jackie Kaminsky (created by Margot Dalton);

Alison Kaine (created by Kate Allen);

Detective Sergeant Joe Keller (created by Nelson DeMille);

Steve Keller [television--The Streets of San Francisco];

Detective George Kelso (created by Malcolm McClintick);

Detective Maurice Kendrick (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Detective Joe Keough (created by Robert J. Randisi);

Lt. F.X. Kerrigan (created by Joseph Harrington);

Detective Kethridge (created by Cortland Fitzsimmons);

Kilkenny (created by Lawrence Blochman);

Lieutenant Bill Kinderman (created by William P. Blatty);

Mateesie Kitologitak (created by Scott Young);

Detective Bert Kling (created by Ed McBain);

Superintendent Knowles (created by Marian Babson);

Lieutenant Theo Kojak [television] (created by Victor B. Miller);

Detective Karen Kovac (created by Bill Granger);

Sheriff Milt Kovak (created by Susan Rogers Cooper);

Detective Spaceman Kowalski (created by Teri White);

Detective Harvey Krim (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Paul Lane (created by Richard and Frances Lockridge);

Officer Skip Langdon (created by Julie Smith);

Sheriff Cliff Lansing (created by Micah S. Hackler);

Sergeant Marion Larch (created by Barbara Paul);

Sheriff Lavers (created by Carter Brown);

Commander Joe Lawless (created by Tom Philbin);

Joe Leaphorn (created by Tony Hillerman);

Captain Leopold (created by Edward Hoch);

Lieutenant Richard Levy (created by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding);

Detective Abe Lieberman (created by Stuart Kaminsky);

Ralph Lindsey (created by Ben Benson);

Ross Lizenby, an F.B.I. agent (created by Margaret Truman);

Detective Karen Logan (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Tony Lonto (created by E. Richard Johnson);

Detective Pharoah Love (created by George Baxt);

Lieutenant Shelly Lowenkopf (created by Richard Fliegel);

Lieutenant Fred Lindquist (created by Sara Hoskinson Frommer);

Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf (created by Richard Fliegel);

Marti MacAlister (Eleanor Taylor Bland);

C. K. Mackenzie (created by Gilian Roberts);

Detective Kate MacLean (created by Noreen Gilpatrick);

Ivor Maddox (created by Elizabeth Linnington);

Officer Gianna Maglione (created by Penny Micklebury);

Detective Blue Maguire (created by Teri White);

Chief Cuddy Mangum (created by Michael Malone);

Sheriff Eric Maland (created by Mabel Seeley);

Kathleen Mallory (created by Carol O'Connell);

Pete Malloy [television--Adam 12] (created by Jack Webb);

Sheriff Abel Marsh [made-for-television movies];

Lieutenant Marshall (created by H.H. Holmes);

Kay Martin (created by Deborah Adams);

Detective Kate Martinelli (created by Laurie R. King);

Detective Martinez (created by Connie Holt Sawyer);

Sergeant Masao Masuto (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Sheriff Charles Matthews (created by D.R. Meredith);

Sheriff Matins (created by Patricia Tichenor Westfall);

Sheriff Charles Matthews (created by D.R. Meredith);

Daphne Matthews (created by Ridley Pearson);

Police Chief Sylvester Maxwell (created by Nelson DeMille);

Highway Patrolman Beau McAllister (created by Carsten Stroud);

Inspector Timothy McCarthy (created by Isabel Ostrander);

Marshal McCloud (created by Collin Wilcox);

Detective James McDougal (created by Hildegarde Dolson);

Billy McGrath (created by Richard Rayner);

Detective Joe McGuire (created by John Lawrence Reynolds);

Inspector Christopher McKee (created by Helen Reilly);

Detective Brian McKenna (created by Dan Mahoney);

Sheriff McPhee (created by Douglas McBriarty);

Lt. Luis Mendoza (created by Del Shannon);

Heimrich Merton (created by Frances and Richard Lockridge);

Detective Meyer Meyer (created by Ed McBain);

Detective Monaghan (created by Ed McBain);

Louis Monroe (created by Bill Kent);

Detective Monroe (created by Ed McBain);

Sergeant Charlie Moon (created by James D. Doss);

Toussaint Moore (created by Ed Lacy);

Bumper Morgan (created by Joseph Wambaugh);

Chief of Police James Morgan (created by Andrew Coburn);

Detective Sal Morizio (created by Margaret Truman);

Hugh Morrison (created by Frank Orenstein);

Norah Mulcahaney (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Muldoon (created by William Marshall);

Sergeant Fang Mulheisen (created by Jon. A. Jackson);

Sheriff Kurt Muller (created by Thomas Zigal);

Lieutenant George Murphy (created by Deidre S. Laiken);

Kate Murphy (created by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie);

Inspector Sarah Nelson (created by Susan Wolfe);

Eliot Ness, Director of Public Safety (created by Max Allan Collins);

Elliot Ness (created by Marvin Albert);

Jake Neuman (created by Jerry Oster);

Jack Nevelsen (created by Larry Watson);

Detective Eddie Nickles (created by William D. Pease);

Officer Barney Nolan (created by William P. McGivern);

Inspector Rae Norse (created by John Esteven);

John Novak, an F.B.I. agent (created by Gerald Petievich);

Paul O'Donnell (created by Nancy Star);

Lance O'Leary (created by Mignon G. Eberhart);

Megan O'Malley (created by Tami Hoag);

Jim O'Neill (created by Doris Miles Disney);

Chief Gabe Ortiz (created by Earlene Fowler);

Veronica Pace, an FBI agent (created by Philip Luber);

Officer Lorraine Page (created by Lynda La Plante);

Peter Painter (created by Brett Halliday);

Detective John Paris (created by Richard Montanari);

Inspector Wade "Old Icewater" Paris (created by Ben Benson);

Deputy Park (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Lieutenant Mike Parker [television--The Naked City];

Toby Parkman (created by Stan Washburn);

Deputy Parr (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Chief Scott Parris (created by James D. Doss);

Chance Perdue (created by Ross. H. Spencer);

Detective Jake Phillips (created by Nick Gaitano);

Inspector Oscar Piper (created by Stuart Palmer);

Detective Marvia Plum (created by Richard Lupoff);

Sheriff Garwood Plunkett (created by Barry Estabrook);

Sergeant Polnik (created by Carter Brown);

Detective Hamilton Pope (created by Edward Mathis);

Leroy Powder (created by Michael Z. Lewin);

Lieutenant Price Price (created by Knight Rhoades);

Quinsigamond (created by Jack O’Connell);

Lieutenant Peter D. Quint (created by Hugh Austin);

Lieutenant Nicky Rachmanoff (created by Robert Westbrook);

Officer Tom Ragnon (created by Richard Harper);

Detective Deb Ralton (created by Lee Martin);

Frank Ramos (created by Frederic Brown);

Tommy Rankin (created by Milton Propper);

Detective Jeremy Ransom (created by Fred Hunter);

Detective Deb Ralston (created by Lee Martin);

Detective Jeremy Ransom (created by Fred Hunter);

Detective John Rawlings (created by John Minahan);

Detective Ed Razoni (created by Warren Murphy);

Jim Reed [television--Adam 12] (created by Jack Webb);

Joe Reilly (created by C.J. Songer);

Detective Gary Reissig (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Sheriff Dan Rhoades (created by Bill Crider);

Max Ritter (created by Lawrence G. Blochman);

Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux (created by James Lee Burke);

Sheriff Jess Roden (created by A.B. Cunningham);

Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (created by Caleb Carr);

Detective Peter Rosen (created by Joan Hess);

Sergeant Devlin Rourke (created by James Grady);

Detective Rune (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Detective Anthony Ryan (created by Ed Dee);

Lieutenant Ryder (created by H. Edward Hunsberger);

Detective Sergeant Joe Ryker (created by Nelson DeMille);

Officer Amelia Sachs (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Constable Orlo Sage (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Christine Saksis, an F.B.I. agent (created by Margaret Truman);

Lieutenant Fred Santomassima (created by Frank De Felitta);

FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich (created by Catherine Coulter);

Lieutenant Justin Saville V (created by Michael Malone);

Inspector Schmidt (created by George Bagby);

Tom Schultz, homicide detective (created by Diane Mott Davidson);

Detective Leo Schulz (created by Shirley Kennett);

Inspector Lenny Schwartz (created by Irving Weinman);

Aline Scott (created by Alison Drake);

Detective Max Segal (created by Dan Greenburg);

Lieutenant Frank Sessions (created by Hillary Waugh);

Detective Rene Shade (created by Dan Woodrell);

Detective Sheppard (created by T.J. MacGregor);

FBI Special Agent Lacey Sherlock (created by Catherine Coulter);

Commissioner Isaac Sidel (created by Jerome Charyn);

Police Chief Joe Silva (created by Susan Oleksiw);

Detective Wally Simpson (created by Celia Dale);

Detective Jack Sinclair (created by Leonard Goldberg);

Detective Jacob Singer (created by George Baxt);

"Skinny" (created by James Colbert);

Deputy Debra Slater (created by Mark Munger);

Lieutenant Charlie Sleet (created y Stephen Greenleaf);

Bill Slider (created by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles);

Detective Smith (created by Malcolm McClintick);

Detective Jill Smith (created by Susan Dunlap);

Inspector Paavo Smith (created by Joanne Pence);

Chief Judd Springfield (created by Alison Smith);

Sheriff Harry Starbranch (created by Gregory Bean);

Deputy Frank Stark (created by Jack Crosswell);

Detective Rachel Starr (created by Lue Zimmelman);

Lieutenant Donovan Steele (created by J.D. Masters);

Detective Jonathan Steele (created by Michael Newton);

Detective Jesse Stone (created by Robert B. Parker);

Mike Stone [television--The Streets of San Francisco];

Mark Storm (created by Skip and Gloria Finkling);

Lieutenant Peter Strom (created by Mabel Seeley);

Lieutenant John Straver (created by Helen Hayes and Thomas Chastain);

Lieutenant Jack Stryker (created by Paula Gosling);

Detective Milo Sturgis (created by Jonathan Kellerman);

Officer Mike Svenson (created by Eve K. Sandstrom);

Detective Cobb Takamura (created by Rob Swigart);

Officer Tina Tamiko (created by Paul Bishop);

Martin Tanner, an F.B.I. agent (created by Michael Newton);

Mitch Taylor (created by Lawrence Treat);

Officer Wayne Tedrow, Jr. (created by James Ellroy);

Detective Martin Teller (created by Margaret Truman);

Chief Nick Thorn (created by Connie Feddersen);

Detective Virgil Tibbs (created by John Bell);

Tillman (created by William Marshall);

Sheriff Sam Titus (created by Eve K. Sandstrom);

Lieutenant Ben Tolliver (created by James Neal Harvey);

Mike Tozzi, an undercover FBI agent (created by Anthony Bruno);

Lieutenant Tragg (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Detective Nikki Trakos (created by Ruby Horansky);

Lieutenant Timothy Trant (created by Q. Patrick);

Captain Rat Trap (created by John William Corrington and Joyce H. Corrington);

Lieutenant Alonzo Tully (created by William X. Kienzle);

Paul Turner (created by Mark Richard Zubro);

Lieutenant Valcour (created by Rufus King);

Lieutenant Sarah van Allen (created by Tony Burton);

Detective Max Van Larsen (created by George Baxt);

Detective Maggie Van Zandt (created by Ken Gross);

Vic Varallo (created by Elizabeth Linnington);

Gabriel Wager (created by Rex Burns);

State Trooper Sam Watchman (created by Brian Garfield);

Sergeant Terry Webb (created by William DeAndrea);

Lieutenant William Weigand (created by Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge);

Joshua Weinstein, an F.B.I. agent (created by T. Jefferson Parker);

Deputy Chief Virginia West (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Lieutenant Al Wheeler (created by Carter Brown);

Sergeant April Woo (created by Leslie Glass);

Chief Susan Wren (created by Charlene Weir);

Lieutenant Alfred Zimmerman (created by Theodore George).

Luke Abbott (created by Paula Gosling);

Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Superintendent Dudley Allwright (created by Philip MacDonald);

Inspector Andrews (created by H.C. "Sapper" McNeile);

Inspector John Appleby (created by Michael Innes);

Assistant Commissioner Herbert Armstrong (created by John Dickson Carr);

Inspector Henry Arnold (created by Miles Burton);

Chief Inspector William Austen (created by Anne Hocking);

Inspector Autumn (created by Robert Robinson);

Inspector Bill Aveyard (created by James Fraser);

Chief Inspector Alan Banks (created by Peter Robinson);

Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (created by Caroline Graham);

Inspector Bass (created by George Selmark);

Cief Inspector William Bastion (created by Richard Harrison);

Superintendent Battle (created by Agatha Christie);

Inspector Beedel (created by Ernest Bramah);

Sergeant William Beef (created by Leo Bruce);

Detective Sergeant Harry Bennett (created by T.E.B. Clarke);

Inspector Biggins (created by W.H. Boore);

Inspector Biles (created by Anthony Wayne);

Inspector Sam Birkett (created by Laurence Payne);

Chief Inspector Bishop (created by R.T. Campbell);

Superintendent Blake (created by Maurice Culpan);

Superintendent Robert Blayde (created by John Wainright);

Chief Inpspector Bligh (created by E.C. Bentley);

Chief Inspector David Bliss (created by James Hawkins);

Superintendent Bliss (created by Edgar Wallace);

Inspector Blount (created by Nicholas Blake);

Superintendent Robert Bone (created by Susannah Stacey);

Inspector Bootle (created by Edwin de Caire);

Chief Inspector "Daddy" Bourne (created by G.V. Galwey);

Inspector Luke Bradley (created by Hugh Pentecost);

Inspector Franklin Brady (created by Allan McRoyd);

Inspector John Bragg (created by Henry Wade);

Sergeant Joseph Bragg (created by Ray Harrison);

Detective Sergeant Brant (created by Ken Bruen);

Inspector Ian Bridie (created by Margery Allingham);

Superintendent Frank Briers (created by C. P. Snow);

Superintendent Bristow (created by Anthony Morton);

David Brock (created by Barry Maitland);

Inspector Bucket (created by Charles Dickens);

Inspector J. Humphrey Bull (created by David Frome);

Sergeant Thomas Bulmer (created by Wilkie Collins);

Inspector Bunce (created by Dorsey Fiske);

Inspector Cheviot Burmann (created by Belton Cobb);

Inspector Burnival (created by Edward Candy);

Inspector Burnley (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Inspector Cardiff (created by Dulcie Gray);

Sir Robert Carey (created by P.F. Chisholm);

Detective Constable Carr (created by Jeffrey Ashford);

Inspector John Carruthers (created by John Dickson Carr);

Chief Inspector Carston (created by Bill Kirton);

Detective Inspector Neil Carter (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Sergeant Caleb Cluff (created by Gil North);

Inspector Cockrill (created by Christianna Brand);

Inspector Codd (created by Michael Delving);

Inspector John Coffin (created by Gwendoline Butler);

Inspector Collier (created by Moray Dalton);

Inspector David Cope (created by June Drummond);

Inspector Cornford (created by Milward Kennedy);

Sergeant Craig (created by Ian Jeffries);

Inspector Richard Cribb (created by Peter Lovesey);

Detective Inspector Mike Croft (created by Jane Adams);

Chief Inspector Cromwell (created by Victor Gunn);

Constable Crosby (created by Catherine Aird);

Inspector John Crow (created by Roy Lewis);

Sergeant Cuff (created by Wilkie Collins);

Inspector James Dale (created by John C. Cooper);

Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (created by P.D. James);

Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (created by Reginald Hill);

Detective Charmian Daniels (created by Jennie Melville);

Inspector Dauncey (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Constable John George Davis (created by Jack Ripley);

Chief Inspector Davy (created by Agatha Christie);

Chief Inspector William "Bloodhound Bill" Dawson (created by Bennet Copplestone);

Detective Sergeant Derwent (created by L.P. Davies);

Inspector Desmond (created by Bill James);

Inspector Dewar (created by Neil Gordon);

Detective Peter Diamond (created by Peter Lovesey);

Inspector Donohue (created by Peter Turnbull);

Sergeant Cal Donovan (created by Jo Bannister);

Inspector Dornfell (created by J.J. Connington);

Inspector Wilfred Dover (created by Joyce Porter);

Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield (created by J.J. Connington);

Inspector Duncannon (created by J.J. Connington);

Sergeant Sir Peter Dunn (created by Edgar Wallace);

Constable Evan Evans (created by Rhys Bowen);

Inspector Tom Fairford (G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Inspector Jeremy Faro (created by Alanna Knight);

Inspector Ian Fellowes (created by Gerald Hammond);

Sergeant George Felse (created by Edith Pargeter);

Inspector Fenby (created by Richard Hull);

Inspector Septimus Finch (created by Margaret Erskine);

Ralph Flensing (created by John Wainright);

Detective Constable Kathy "Kaz" Flood (created by Alex Keegan);

Inspector Flower (created by Moira Field);

Inspector Forbes (created by Hugh Desmond);

Inspector Fox (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Superintendant Heldon Foyle (created by Frank Froest);

Inspector French (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Inspector Jack Frost (created by R.D. Wingfield);

Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace (created by Michael Jacks);

Fusil (created by Peter Alding);

Chief Inspector David Fyfe (created by William Paul);

Chief Superintendent George Gently (created by Alan Hunter);

Gideon (created by John Creasey);

Chief Constable Gilliant (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Gilmartin (created by Charles Barry;

Inspector Liz Graham (created by Jo Bannister);

Chief Inspector Grant (created by Andrew Garve);

Chief Inspector Bill Green (created by Douglas Clark);

Inspector Greenwood (created by C.A. Alington);

Detective Inspector Greve (created by Dennis Haddow);

Inspector David Hadley (created by John Dickson Carr);

Superintendent Blanche Hampton (created by Trevor Barnes);

Inspector Hardcastle (created by Agatha Christie);

Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur (created by Bill James);

Captain Hastings (created by Agatha Christie);

Sergeant Barbara Havers (created by Elizabeth George);

Chief Inspector Hazelrigg (created by Michael Gilbert);

Superintendant Hebden (created by Lord Gorell);

Inspector Hennessy (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Inspector Cuthbert Higgins (created by Cecil Freeman Gregg);

Sergeant Judy Hill (created by Jill McGown);

Sergeant Honeybody (created by Kenneth Giles);

Detective Michaela Hoolihan (created by Martin Amis);

Inspector Hopkins (created by David Burnham);

Inspector David Hornbeam (created by John Rhode and Carter Dickson);

Chief Inspector Houghton (created by Maurice Culpan);

David Hoyle (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Hoyle (created by harry Carmichael);

Sergeant Hughjohn (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Inspector Humbleby (created by Edmund Crispin);

Inspector Hyde (created by Anthony Heckstall-Smith);

Detective Constable Desmond Iles (created by Bill James);

Inspector Jacko Jackson (created by Frank Palmer);

Sergeant Gemma James (created by Deborah Crombie);

Inspector Harry James (created by Kenneth Giles);

Superintendent Japp (created by Agatha Christie);

Detective Inspector Carol Jordan (created by Val Macdermid);

Harry Jordan (created by Janie Bolitho);

Sergeant Trevor Joseph (created by Katherine John);

Inspector Ben Jurnet (created by S.T. Haymon);

Superintendent Richard Jury (created by Martha Grimes);

Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy (created by Paul Charles);

Inspector Kenworthy (created by John Buxton Hilton);

Constable Kerr (created by Peter Alding);

Inspector Don Kerry (created by Jeffery Ashford);

Superintendent Duncan Kincaid (created by Deborah Crombie);

Inspector Kirby (created Andrew Garve);

Detective Superintendent John Knowles (created by Marian Babson);

Detective Kathy Kolla (created by Barry Maitland);

Detective Jack Laidlaw (created by William McIlvanney);

Inspector Lamb (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Chief Inspector Lyle (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Leric (created by Roger Busby);

Inspector Lestrade (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Inspector Joseph Lestrade (created by M.J. Trow);

Sergeant Lewis (created by Colin Dexter);

Sergeant Lister (created by Victor Gunn);

Inspector Littlejohn (created by George Bellairs);

Sergeant Gomer Lloyd (created by David Williams);

Chief Inspector Lloyd (created by Jill McGown);

Chief Inspector Lord (created by David Frome);

Inspector Loxton (created by J.J. Connington);

Sergeant Lumly (created by Donald Thomas);

Inspector Lyle (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Thomas Lynley (created by Elizabeth George);

Constable Hamish MacBeth (created by M.C. Beaton);

Inspector MacDonald (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Inspector John MacLeish (created by Janet Neel);

Macleod (created by Joanna Cannan);

George Macrae (created by Alan Scholefield);

Moss Magill (created by Dorothy Gardiner);

Inspector Mallett (created by Mary Fitt);

Inspector Mallett (created by Cyril Hare)

George Man, 18^th-century parish watchguard (created by Keith Heller);

Chief Constable March (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Colonel March (created by Carter Dickson);

Inspector Humphrey Marion (created by John Dickson Carr);

Chief Inspector Alan Markby (created by Ann Granger);

Colonel Marquis (created by Carter Dickson);

Chief Inspector Martin (created by Richard Amberley);

Inspector George Martin (created by Francis Beeding);

Chief Superintendent George Masters (created by Douglas Clark);

Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters (created by Carter Dickson);

Inspector Mather (created by Graham Greene);

Roger Matthews (created by James Anderson);

Chief Inspector Gil Mayo (created by Marjorie Eccles);

Chief Inspector McLean (created by George Goodchild);

Inspector John McLeish (created by Janet Neel);

Inspector Midwinter (created by Harrington Hext);

Detective Nick Miller (created by Jack Higgins);

Inspector "Touchy" Miller (created by Philip Daniels);

Sergeant Arthur Milton (created by L. Henderson);

Inspector Mitchell (created by Pauline Bell);

Chief Inspector Mitchell (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Inspector Moresby (created by Anthony Berkeley);

Inspector Morgan (created by John Bingham);

Chief Inspector Morrissey (created by Kay Mitchell);

Chief Inspector Morse (created by Colin Dexter);

Constable James Morton (created by Ray Harrison);

Phil Moss (created by Bill Knox);

Sergeant Angus Mott (created by Clare Curzon);

Inspector Narracott (created by Agatha Christie);

Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt (created by Jeanne M. Dams);

Inspector Nilsen (created by June Drummond);

Inspector Nivens (created by Emily Brightwell);

Winston Nkata (created by Elizabeth George);

Inspector Guy Northeast (created by Joanna Cannan);

Inspector Oates (created by Margery Allingham);

Inspector Jack Oxby (created by Thomas Swan);

Chief Inspector Pardoe (created by Dorothy Bowers);

Sergeant Peter Pascoe (created by Reginald Hill);

Constable Jock Patterson (created by Peter N. Walker);

Detective Hugh Patterson (created by Jill McGown);

Inspector Richard Patton (created by Roger Ormerod);

Detective Charlie Peace (created by Robert Barnard);

Inspector Henry Peckover (created by Michael Kenyon);

Inspector Gregory Pellew (created by Val Gielgud);

Inspector Percival (created by Richard Hull);

Chief Inspector Merlin Perry (created by David Williams);

Sergeant Patrick Petrella (created by Michael Gilbert);

Detective Carmen Pharoah (created by Peter Turnbull);

Superintendent James Pibble (created by Peter Dickinson);

Detective Owen Pitt (created by Stephen Solomita);

Inspector Thomas Pitt (created by Anne Perry);

Chief Inspector Pointer (created by A.E. Fielding);

Inspector John Poole (created by Henry Wade);

Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell (created by Graham Thomas);

Officer Robin Price (created by Anne Morice);

Inspector Ronald Price (created by Joanna Cannan);

Detective Charlie Priest (created by Stuart Pawson);

Simon Puttock, a bailiff (created by Michael Jacks);

Detective Douglas Quantrill (created bt Sheila Radley);

Inspector Adam Quill (created by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon);

Inspector Raikes (created by Dorothy Bowers);

Inspector Rambler (created by Peter Antony);

Inspector Stephen Ramsay (created by Ann Cleeves);

Inspector John Rebus (created by Ian Rankin);

Sergeant Reed (created by Charles Drummond);

Inspector Charlie Resnick (created by John Harvey);

Inspector Reynolds (created by Eric Bruton);

Constable Nick Rhea (created by Nicholas Rhea);

Constable [later Inspector and then Superintendent] Richardson (created by Basil Thomson);

Inspector Ringrose (created by Eden Phillpotts);

Inspector Ringwood (created by Katherine Farrer);

Charles Ripley (created by John Wainright);

Inspector Julian Rivers (created by Carol Carnac);

Chief Inspector Roberts (created by Ken Bruen);

Inspector Roberts (created by Carter Dickson);

Detective Superintendent George Rogers (created by Jonathan Ross);

Superintendent Douglas Roper (created by Roy Hart);

Inspector Ross (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Superintendent Ross (created by J.J. Connington);

Superintendent Rowley (created by Miles Burton);

Inspector Tony Rowley (created by Roger Busby);

Inspector Rudd (created by June Thomson);

Sergeant Ruddock (created by Francis Beeding);

Inspector Rufford (created by J.J. Connington);

Inspector Ian Rutledge (created by Charles Todd);

Sergeant Salt (created by Dorothy Bowers);

Superintendent Seegrave (created by Wilkie Collins);

Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro (created by Jo Bannister);

Superintendent Simon Shard (created by Philip McCutchan);

Sergeant Jasper Shrig (created by Jeffery Farnol);

Leopold Silver (created by Alan Scholefield);

Robert Skinner (created by Quintin Jardine);

Inspector Anthony Slade (created by Leonard R. Gribble);

Inspector Bill Slider (created by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles);

Inspector C.D. Sloan (created by Catherine Aird);

Inspector Smallways (created by George A. Birmingham);

Chief Inspector Owen Smith (created by James Barnett);

Inspector Terry Sneed (created by G.F. Newman);

Inspector Alec Stainton (created by Stephen Murray);

County Constable Matthew Stock (created by Leonard Tourney);

Sergeant Stone (created by Sarah J. Mason);

Inspector Strang (created by Carol Carnac);

Sir John Strangeways (created by Nicholas Blake);

Inspector Angus Straun (created by Barry Cork);

Superintendent Sutcliffe (created by Robert Barnard);

Inspector David Sutton (created by Andrew Osmond);

Inspector Swaim (created by Donald Thomas);

Sergeant Swift (created by Edwin de Caire);

Inspector Tanner (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Constable Edward Thackeray (created by Peter Lovesey);

Colin Thane (created by Bill Knox);

Inspector Luke Thanet (created by Dorothy Simpson);

Chief Inspector H.H. Thew (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Superintendent George Thorne (created by John Penn);

Inspector Richard Thornhill (created by Andrew Taylor);

Inspector Henry Tibbett (created by Patricia Moyes);

Inspector Harry Timberlake (created by Max Marquis);

Inspector Derek Torrey (created by John Gardner);

Superintendent Perry Trethowan (created by Robert Barnard);

Nick Trevelyan (created by Susan B. Kelly);

Inspector J. Trewley (created by Sarah J. Mason);

Sergeant Troy (created by Caroline Graham);

Sergeant William Clarence Verity (created by Francis Selwyn);

Chief Inspector Sidney Walsh (created by Richard Hunt);

Inspector David Webb (created by Anthea Fraser);

Inspector Roger West (created by John Creasey);

Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford (created by Ruth Rendell);

Superintendent George "The Old General" Wharton (created by Christopher Bush);

Sergeant Wield (created by Reginald Hill);

Inspector Willis (created by Freeman Wills Crofts);

Superintendent Wilson (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Superintendent William Winter (created by Gwendoline Butler);

Inspector Witherspoon (created by Emily Brightwell);

Assistant Commissioner Wray (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Superintendent Charles Wycliffe (created by W.J. Burley);

Superintendent Mike Yeadings (created by Clare Curzon);

Inspector Young (created by Miles Burton).

Inspector Enrique Alavarez [Mallorca] (created by Roderic Jeffries);

Sergeant Martin Karl Alberg [Canada] (created by L.R. Wright);

Inspector Pierre Allain [France] (created by Bruce Graeme);

Inspector Alevrez [Majorca] (created by Roderic Jeffries);

Inspector Wang Anzhuang [China] (created by Christopher West);

Inspector Carlo Arbati [Italy] (created by John Spencer Hill);

Inspector Carol Ashton [Australia] (created by Claire McNab);

Inspector Auden [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Inspector Barlach [Switzerland] (created by Friedrich Durrenmatt);

Martin Beck [Sweden] (created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo);

Henri Bencolin [France] (created by John Dickson Carr);

Chief Reid Bennet [Canada] (created by Ted Wood);

Superintendent Luis Bernal [Spain] (created by David Serafin);

Captain Bihn  [fictitious Southeast Asian nation] (created by Gary Alexander);

Napoleon Bonaparte [Australia] (created by Arthur W. Upfield);

Inspector Borges [Spain] (created by John Bonett);

Lieutenant Boruvka [Czechoslovakia] (created by Josef Skvorecky);

Inspector Guido Brunetti [Italy] (created by Donna Leon);

Sergeant Maynard Bullock [Canada] (created by James Powell);

Superintendent Luis Burnal [Spain] (created by David Serafin);

Inspector Henri Castang [France] (created by Nicholas Freeling);

Zinc Chandler [Canada] (created by Michael Slade);

Detective Sergeant Emile Cinq-Mars [Canada] (created by John Farrow);

Cirret [France] (created by Elizabeth Hely);

Avram Cohen [Israel] (created by Robert Rosenberg);

Detective Chief Inspector Cross [Northern Ireland] (created by Chris Petit);

Chief Superintendent John Crown [China] (created by TerryHarknett);

Detective Sergeant Aiden Cummings [Ireland] (created by Sheila Barrett);

Dmitri Danilov [Russia] (created by Brian Freemantle);

Michel Danton [French] (created by Norman Bogner);

Captain Jose Da Silva [Brazil] (created by Robert L. Fish);

Saturnin Dax [France] (created by Marten Cumberland);

Robert DeClerq [Canada] (created by Michael Slade);

Sergeant de Gier [Netherlands] (created by Janwillem van de Wetering);

Detective Inspector DeKok [Netherlands] (created by Baantjer);

Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin, Royal Highway Patrol [France] (created by Charles O’Brien);

Master Detective Otto Dietrich [German] (created by James Thayer);

Flavia di Stefano, Art Theft Squad [Italy] (created by Iain Pears);

Detective Segeant Cal Donovan [Ireland] (created by Jo Bannister);

Superintendant Duffy [Ireland] (created by Nigel Fitzgerald);

Luke Dunlop [Australia] (created by Peter Corriss);

Detective Felix Elizalde [Philippines] (created by William Marshall);

Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Detective Zhong Fong [People’s Republic of China] (created by David Rotenberg);

Fowler [Australia] (created by John Godwin);

Inspector Furneaux [France] (created by Louis Tracy);

Ambrose Ganelon (four generations with the same name) [Monaco] (created by James Powell);

Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier [France] (created by Richard Grayson);

Sergeant Getulio [Brazil] (created by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro);

Inspector Gevrol [France] (created by Emile Gaboriau);

Inspector Ganesh Vinayak Ghote [India] (created by H.R.F. Keating);

Barry Gilbert [Canada] (created by Scott Mackay);

Monsieur Gondureau, Chief of the Surete (created by Honore de Balzac);

Adjutant Grijpstra [Netherlands] (created by Janwillem van de Wetering);

Chief Inspector Alex Grismolet [France] (created by Dean Fuller);

Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia [Italy] (created by Magdalen Nabb);

Inspector Haig [Australia] (created by S.H. Courtier);

Colonel Haki [Turkey] (created by Eric Ambler);

M. Hanaud [France] (created by A.E.W. Mason);

Sergeant Eddie Henderson [Canada] (created by L.R. Wright);

Sergeant Hoong [China] (created by Robert van Gulik);

Liu Hulan [China] (created by Lisa See);

Inspector Iqbal [Pakistan] (created by Cheryl Benard);

Commissaris Jan [Netherlands] (created by Janwillem van de Wetering);

Monsieur Jonquelle (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Ben Kamal [Palestine] (created by Jon Land);

Inspector Mike Kenny [Ireland] (created by Eilis Dillon);

Superintendent Bamsan Kiet [fictitious Southeast Asian nation] (created by Gary Alexander);

Inspector Kimura [Japan] (created by James Melville);

Inspector Mateesie Kitologitsk [Canada] (Created by Scott Young);

Herman Kohler [Germany--Gestapo Investigator] (created by Joseph Robert Janes);

Colonel Kong [China/Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Lieutenant Tromp Kramer [South Africa] (created by James McClure);

RCMP Sergeant Dan Laurenson [Canada] (created by R.F. Darian);

Sergeant Juan Llorca [Spain] (created by Delano L. Ames);

Ernst Lohmann [Germany] (created by Jack Gerson);

Joe Lombardo [Canada] (created by Scott Mackay);

Ambrose Mahon [Australia] (created by S.H. Courtier);

Inspector Maigret [France] (created by Georges Simenon);

Inspector Scobie Malone [Australia] (created by Jon Cleary);

Bolivar Manchenil [Virgin Islands] (created by Donald McNutt Douglass);

Captain Maestrangelo [Italy] (created by Magdalen Nabb);

Inspector Carl McCadden [Ireland] (created by Jim Lusby);

Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr [Ireland] (created by Bartholomew Gill);

Cecil Megarry [Northern Ireland] (created by E. McEldowney);

Inspector Matt Minogue [Ireland] (created by John Brady);

Felix Norman [France] (created by Marten Cumberland);

Chief Inspector James Odhiambo [Kenya] (created by Dennis Casley);

Inspector O'Donovan [Ireland] (created by Brian Cleeve);

Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon [Isreal] (created by Batyr Goor);

Superintendent O’Malley [Ireland] (created by Michael Kenyon);

Superintendent Tetsuo Otani [Japan] (created by James Melville);

Senior Inspector O'Yee [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Don Pancho [Mexico] (created by Bruce Buckingham);

Detective Claire Parker [Canada] (created by Laurence Gough);

Chief Inspector Clovis Pel [France] (created by Mark Hebden);

Superintendent Pepper [Canada] (created by Frank A. Smith);

Petrovich [Russia] (created by Fyodor Dostoyevsky);

Sergeant Mel Pickett [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Inspector Pinaud [France] (created by Pierre Audemars);

Arkady Renko [Russia] (created by Martin Cruz Smith);

Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman Madoc Rhys (created by Alisa Craig);

Inspector Simon Riviere [France] (created by Claude Aveline);

Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov [Russia] (created by Stuart Kaminsky);

Inspector Royle [Australia] (created by Robert Barnard);

Inspector Charlie Salter [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Inspector John Sanders [Canada] (created by Medora Sale);

Inspector Sands [Canada] (created by Margaret Millar);

Ichiro Sano, [Medieval Japan] (created by Laura Joh Rowland);

Inspector George Sansi [India] (created by Paul Mann);

Constable Jake Small [Canada] (created by A.E. Eddenden);

Inspector Spearpoint [Suva] (created by Frank Arthur);

Inspector Spencer [Hong Kong] (created by William Marshall);

Inspector Jean Louis St. Cyr [France] (created by Joseph Robert Janes);

Commissioner James Munroe Tallant [West Indies] (created by Andrew York);

Inspector Albert V. Tretheway [Canada] (created by A.E. Eddenden];

Superintendent Vachell [British Africa] (created by Elspeth Huxley);

Incra Vallo [Italy] (created by Carlo Emilio Gadda);

Inspector Van Der Valk [Netherlands] (created by Nicholas Freeling);

Inspector Kurt Wallander [Sweden] (created by Henning Mankell);

Sergeant Wilkie [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Detective Jack Willow [Canada] (created by Laurence Gough);

Detective Sergeant Campbell Young [Canada] (created by J.D. Carpenter);

Aurelio Zen [Italy] (created by Michael Dibdin);

Mickey Zondi [South Africa] (created by James McClure).

Agatha (Troy) Alleyn (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Judith Raven (Appleby) (created by Michael Innes);

Kori Brichter (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Cathy Carter (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Bunty Felse (created by Ellis Peters);

Ellie (Soper) Pascoe (created by Reginald Hill);

Clare Ringwood (created by Katherine Farrer);

Emmy Tibbett (created by Patricia Moyes);

Arlette Van der Valk (created by Nicolas Freeling);

Dora Wexford (created by Ruth Rendell).

Vinnie Altobelli (created by Milton Bass);

Lew Archer (created by Ross MacDonald);

Ezell "Easy" Barnes (created by Richard Hilary);

Lilly Bennett (created by Marne Davis Kellogg);

Jack Blaine (created by Al Sarratonio);

Charlie Bradshaw (created by Stephen Dobyns);

Frank Branco (created by David Daniel and Chris Carpenter);

Jack Cardigan (created by William Shatner);

Carlotta Carlyle (created by Linda Barnes);

Fred Carver (created by John Lutz);

Joe DiGregorio (created by Seth Margolis);

Chester Drum, an ex-FBI agent (created by Stephen Marlowe);

Nick Duffy (created by Dan Kavanagh);

Jack Dwyer (created by Ed Gorman);

Meg Gillis (created by C.J. Songer);

Nate Heller (created by Max Allan Collins);

Jack Kiley (created by John Harvey);

Jacob Lomax (created by Michael Allegretto);

Mac (created by Thomas Blanchard Dewey);

Harry MacNeil (created by H. Paul Jeffers);

McGregor (created by Henry Kane);

Alex McKnight (created by Steve Hamilton);

Stanley Moodrow (created by Stephen Solomita);

Harry Orwell [television] (created by Howard Rodman);

Mel Pickett [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

John Raven [British] (created by Donald MacKenzie);

Tony Rome (created by Marvin H. Albert);

Lenny Schwartz (created by Irving Weinman);

Nick Sharman (created by Mark Timlin);

Kate Shugak (created by Dana Stabenow);

Aristotle Plato Socarides (created by Paul Kemprecos);

Spenser (created by Robert B. Parker);

Wish Stephenson (created by Dianne Day);

Holland Taylor (created by David Housewright);

Mitch Tobin (created by Tucker Coe);

Gabe Treloar (created by John Roberts);

Paul Whelan (created by Michael Raleigh).

Mali Anderson (created by Grace F. Edwards);

Inspector John Appleby (created by Michael Innes);

Kate Baker (created by Gary Krist);

Burke Basile (created by Sandra Brown);

Lobo Black, a disabled former lawman (created by William DeAndrea);

Peter Brichter (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Avram Cohen [Israel] (created by Robert Rosenberg);

Joe Crow (created by Pete Hautman);

Gregor Demarkian, the former head of the FBI's Behavoral Sciences Unit (created by Jane Haddam);

Peter Diamond, British (created by Peter Lovesey);

Bill Driver (created by J. Wallis Martin);

Luke Dunlop, Australian (created by Peter Corriss);

Jack Dwyer (created by Ed Gorman);

Mike Flint (created by Austin R. Healy);

Jimmy "Griff" Griffin (created by Preston Pairo III);

Jefferson "J.W." Jackson, disabled former policeman (created by Philip R. Craig);

Kevin Kerney (created by Michael McGarrity);

Elizabeth Kennedy (created by Frances Fyfield);

Edwin Kreiss, a retired F.B.I. agent (created by P.T. Deutermann);

John Spencer Lubbock, a retired Detective Chief Inspector in Great Britain (created by Brian Cooper);

Johnny MacClough (created by Reed Farrel Coleman);

Terril McCaleb (created by Michael Connelly);

Adam McCleet (created by Rick Hanson);

Bryan Murphy (created by Terri White);

Frank Pavlicek (created by Andy Straka);

(Former Deputy Federal Marshall) Oscar Schiller (created by Douglas C. Jones);

(Ex-Inspector) Paxton Sevrel (created by Cedric Worth);

(Ex-Commissioner) Sir Denis Nayland Smith (created by Sax Rohmer);

Mel Pickett, a retired Canadian police officer (created by Eric Wright);

Ex-Lieutenant) Seymour Pinchus (created by Dennis Asen);

Isaac Sidel, a former police commissioner (created by Jerome Charyn);

Calico Jack Walker, a former patrolman (created by Paul Bishop);

Lee Ann Warren (created by Chassie West);

John Webber (created by Anthony Oliver);

Charlie Willis (created by Lee Goldberg);

(Ex-Superintendnet) Henry Wilson (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

(Ex-Superintendent) Archie Wiston (created by Lindsay Anson).

Harvey Ace (created by Merle Horwitz);

Rachel Alexander (created by Carol Lea Benjamin);

Johnny Aloha (created by Day Keene);

Vinnie Altobelli (created by Milton Bass);

Pete Amsterdam (created by Lawrence Shames);

Lew Archer (created by Ross MacDonald);

Michael Archer (created by Dianne Day);

Jacob Asch (created by Arthur Lyons);

Aaron Asherfeld (created by David Berlinski);

Mick "Brew" Axbrewder (created by Reed Stephens);

Sonny Baca (created by Rudolpho Anaya);

Dred Balcazar (created by Ned White);

Masey Baldridge (created by James D. Brewer);

Paul Bannerman, the owner of a private investigations firm (created by John Maxim);

Ezell "Easy" Barnes (created by Richard Hilary);

Carver Bascombe (created by Kenn Davis);

Ginger Barnes (created by Donna Huston Murray);

Stone Barrington (created by Stuart Woods);

J.P. Beaumont (created by J.A. Jance);

Lee Beckett (created by John Crowe);

Jerry Benedict (created by Edward S. Aarons);

Lilly Bennett (created by Marne Davis Kellogg);

Alan Bernhardt (created by Colin Wilcox);

Tom Bethany (created by Jerome Doolittle);

Joe Binney (created by Jack Livingston);

Thomas Black (created by Earl Emerson);

Jack Blaine (created by Al Sarratonio);

Haskell Blevins (created by Taylor McCafferty);

Harvey Blissberg (created by Richard Rosen);

Leo Bloodworth (created by Dick Lochte);

Lilly Bennett (created by Marne Davis Kellogg);

Joe Binney (created by Jack Livingston);

Haskell Blevins (created by Taylor McCafferty);

Leo Bloodworth (created by Dick Lochte);

Jack Bodine (created by Thomas Bunn);

Peter Boone (created by William Jaspersohn);

Charlie Bradshaw (created by Stephen Dobyns);

Peter Bragg (created by Jack Lynch);

Frank Branco (created by David Daniel and Chris Carpenter);

Barr Breed (created by Bill S. Ballinger);

Paul Broder (created by James T. Doyle);

R.J. Brook (created by Stephen H. Bogart);

Sydney Bryant (created by Patricia Wallace);

James Burlane (created by Richard Hoyt);

John Caine (created by Charles Knief);

Cat Caliban (created by D.B. Borton);

Brock "The Rock" Callahan (created by William Campbell Gault);

Roman Cantrell (created by Elaine Raco Chase);

Jack Cardigan (created by William Shatner);

Neal Carey (created by Don Winslow);

Carlotta Carlyle (created by Linda Barnes);

Michael Carolina (created by Thomas G. Briody);

Ace Carpenter (created by Hamilton Caine);

Owen Carr (created by Walter Walker);

"Apples" Carstairs (created by Simon Myles);

Nick Carter (created by John R. Coryell);

Fred Carver (created by John Lutz);

Charley Case (created by John Spencer);

Tony Cassella (created by Larry Beinhart);

Antonio "Chico" Cervantes (created by Bruce Cook);

Bart Challis (created by William F. Nolan);

Peter Chambers (created by Henry Kane);

Ian Chapel (created by Paul Bishop);

Nick Charles, a former private investigator (created by Dashiell Hammett);

Elizabeth Chase (created by Martha C. Lawrence);

Sunny Childs (created by Ruth Birmingham)

Lydia Chin (created by S.J. Rozan);

Joe Cinquez (created by Clifford Mason);

Frank Clemons (created by Thomas H. Cook);

Matt Cobb (created by William DeAndrea);

Blackie Cole/Blanche Cohen, a transgendered private investigator (Created by Lisa E. Davis);

Elvis Cole (created by Robert Crais);

Cyrus Colfax (created by Jayne Ann Krentz);

Kat Colorado (created by Karen Kijewski);

Timothy Cone (created by Lawrence Sanders);

Claire Conrad (created by Melodie Johnson Howe);

The Continental Op (created by Dashiell Hammett);

Bertha Cool (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Joe Copp (created by Don Pendleton);

Tony Costaine (created by Willis Todhunter Ballard);

Bill Crane (created by Jonathan Latimer);

Karl Craven (created by Jonathan Latimer);

Joshua Croft (created by Walter Satterthwait);

Edwina Crusoe (created by Mary Kitteredge);

John Francis Cuddy (created by Jeremiah Healy);

Willie Cuesta (Created by John Lantigua);

Sandrine Curry (created by Michael Bowen);

Thomas Curry (created by Michael Bowen);

Timothy Dane (created by William Ard);

Vic Daniel (created by David M. Pierce);

Jane Da Silva (created by K.K. Beck);

Athena Dawes (created by Anita Gentry);

Patricia Delaney (created by Sharon Gwyn Short);

Sarah Delaney (created by Carolyn Haines);

Kit DeLeeuw (created by Jon Katz);

Nick Delvecchio (created by Robert J. Randisi);

John Denson (created by Richard Horr);

Harry James Denton (created by Steven Womack);

Lee Diamond (created by Chris Wiltz);

Willy Diaz (created by Rider McDowell);

Joe DiGregorio (created by Seth Margolis);

DiMaggio (created by Mike Lupica);

Gil Disbro (created by James E. Martin);

Tough Dick Donahue (created by Frederick Nebel);

Jack Donne (created by William Relling, Jr.);

Carroll Dorsey (created by Thomas Lipinski);

Paul Drake (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Simon Drake (created by Helen Nielsen);

Chester Drum, an ex-FBI agent (created by Stephen Marlowe);

Tubby Dubonnet (created by Tony Dunbar);

Cliff Dunbar (created by Will Harriss);

Jonas Duncan (created by Jackson Gillis);

Micah Dunn (created by M.K. Shuman);

Jack Dwyer (created by Ed Gorman);

Henry Dyer (created by Raymond H. Ring);

Mark East (created by Hilda Lawrence);

John Easy (created by Ronald Goulart);

Jake Eaton (created by Larry Maness);

Kenny Eisenburg (created by Marlys Millhiser);

Maggie Elliott (created by Elizabeth Atwood Taylor);

Scott Elliott (created by Terence Faherty);

Homer Evans (created by Elliot Paul);

Fortune Fannelli (created by Jack Early);

Mike Faraday (created by Basil Copper);

Fiddler (created by A. E. Maxwell);

Kevin Fitzgerald (created by Tom Topor);

Jack Flippo (created by Doug J. Swanson);

C.J. Floyd (created by Robert Greer);

Mal Foley (created by David Walker);

Chester Fortune (created by Thomas H. Stone);

Dan Fortune (created by Michael Collins);

Nick Fourcade (created by Tami Hoag);

Jake Fowler (created by Doris Mortman);

Theresa Franco (created by Carolyn Chambers Clark);

Margo Franklin (created by Jerry Jenkins);

Benny Freedman (created by Milton R. Bass);

Reuben Frost (created by Haughton Murphy);

Jackson Fury (created by Carol Jerina);

Zeke Gahagan, an eighty-one-year-old p.i. (created by Vincent McConner);

Jo Gar (created by Raoul Whitfield);

Harry Garnish (created by Frank McConnell);

Garrett (created by Glen Cook);

Dave Garrett (created by Neil Albert);

Angela Gennaro (created by Dennis Lehane);

Meg Gillis (created by C.J. Songer);

J.J. Gittes [films] (created by ?);

Murray Glick (created by Michael J. Katz);

Leo Gold (created by Jay Finklestein);

Rayford "Ray" Goodman (created by Stan Cutler);

Archie Goodwin (created by Rex Stout);

Delbert "Dub" Greenert (created by J. Madison Davis);

Greenstreet, a Pinkerton operative (created by Richard Moquist);

Lew Griffin (created by James Sallis);

Simeon Grist (created by Timothy Hallinan);

Hector Gronig (created by Walter Walker);

Peter Gunn [television] (created by Blake Edwards);

Aaron Gunner (created by Gar Anthony Haywood);

Brian Guy (created by Jason Ridgeway);

Leo Haggerty (created by Benjamin M. Schutz);

Leo Haig (created by Lawrence Block);

Mike Haller (created by Max Byrd);

Mike Hammer (created by Mickey Spillane);

Joe Hannibal (created by Wayne D. Dundee);

Jim Hanvey (created by Octavus Roy Cohen);

Will Hardesty (created by Richard Barre);

Patrick Hardy (created by Martin Meyers);

Frank Harriman (created by Jan Burke);

Chip Harrison (created by Lawrence Block);

Stanley Hastings (created by Parnell Hall);

Tamara Hayle (created by Valerie Wilson Wesley);

Carl Heller (created by Frank Roderus);

Nate Heller (created by Max Allan Collins);

Ben Helm (created by Bruno Fischer);

Tom Hickey (created by Ken Kuhlken);

Rick Holman (created by Carter Brown);

Duffy House (created by Crabbe Evers);

Jeri Howard (created by Janet Dawson);

Emma Howe (created by Gillian Roberts);

Wayne Hoyer (created by John Kissinger);

Robert Lee Hunter (created by Eric Sauter);

Sam Hunter (created by L.A. Morse);

J.W. Jackson (created by Philip R. Craig);

Matt Jacob (created by Zachary Klein);

Miles Jacoby (created by Robert J. Randisi);

Milan Jacovich (created by Les Roberts);

J.J. Jackson (created by Philip R. Craig);

Simon "Red Diamond" Jaffa (created by Mark Schorr);

Cassidy James (created by Kate Calloway);

Chet Johnston (created by Joel Helgerson);

Casey Jones (created by Katy Munger);

Fremont Jones (created by Dianne Day);

Lena Jones (created by Betty Webb);

Milo Kachigan (created by Karen Rose Cercone);

Simon Kaye (created by Hillary Waugh);

Lincoln Keller (created by Lee Meadows);

Gerry Kells (created by Paul Cain);

Patrick Kenzie (created by Dennis Lehane);

Kevin Kerney (created by Michael McGarrity);

Jack Kiley (created by John Harvey);

Johnny Killain (created by Dan J. Marlowe);

Chris Klick (created by Wendell McCall);

Micky Knight (created by J.M. Redmann);

Dan Kruger (created by Michael Cormany);

Donald Lam (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Raina Lambert (created by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.);

Simon Lash (created by Frank Gruber);

Joe Lassiter (created by John Case);

Lauren Laurano (created by Sandra Scoppettone);

Jacob Lomax (created by Michael Allegretto);

Tony Lowell (created by E.C. Ayers);

Gideon Lowry (created by John Leslie);

Jimmy Lujack (created by David Thoreau);

Bubba Mabry (created by Steve Brewer);

Mac (created by Thomas Blanchard Dewey);

Marti MacAlister (created by Eleanor Taylor Bland);

Cam MacCardle (created by Tucker Halleran);

Devon MacDonald (created by Nancy Baker Jacobs);

Amos MacGuffin (created by Robert Upton);

"Three Gun" Terry Mack (created by Carroll John Daly);

Patience Mackeller (created by Janet LaPIerre);

Verity Mackeller (created by Lanet LaPierre);

Scotia MacKinnon (created by Sharon Duncan);

Harry MacNeil (created by H. Paul Jeffers);

Matty Madrid (created by P.J. Grady);

David Mallin (created by Roger Ormerod);

Stuart Mallory (created by Ronald Clair Roat);

Ryder Malone (created by J.W. Rider);

Terry Manion (created by Dick Lochte);

Eric March (created by G.G. Fickling);

James Marley (created by Philip Ross);

Daisy Marlow (created by D. Miller Morgan);

Philip Marlowe (created by Raymond Chandler);

Van Mars (created by Bill S. Ballinger);

Cat Marsala (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Paul Marston (created by Robert Eversz);

Angela Matelli (created by Wendi Lee);

Bert McCall (created by Willis Todhunter Ballard);

Quint McCauley (created by D.C. Brod);

Blue McCarron (created by Abigail Padgett);

Mike McCleary (created by T.J. MacGregor);

Sharon McCone (created by Marcia Muller);

Travis McGee (created by John D. MacDonald);

Pete McGrath (created by Michael Brett);

McGregor (created by Henry Kane);

Todd McKinnon (created by Lenore Glen Offord);

Alex McKnight (created by Steve Hamilton);

Archibald McNally (created by Lawrence Sanders);

Robert Miles (created by David H. Everson);

Kinsey Milhone (created by Sue Grafton);

Dana Miller (created by Sherryl Woods);

Robin Miller (created by Jaye Maiman);

Milton "Milo" Milodragovitch (created by James Crumley);

Tess Monaghan (created by Laura Lippman);

Ivan Monk (created by Gary Phillips);

Stanley Moodrow (created by Stephen Solomita);

Scott Moody (created by Steve Oliver);

Phil Moony (created by Paul Engleman);

Charlie Morell (created by Alex Abella);

Ruff Morgan (created by Jimmy Shannon);

Hoke Mosely (created by Charles Willeford);

Matt Murdock (created by Robert J. Ray);

The Nameless Detective (created by Bill Pronzini);

Tres Navarre (created by Rick Riordan);

Nebraska (created by William J. Reynolds);

Yuri Nevsky (created by Dimitri Gat);

Vic Newman (created by Dorothy Sucher);

Nason "Nase" Nichols (created by M. Thomson);

Tip O'Neil (created by James Edward Grant);

Ed Noon (created by Michael Avallone);

Rita Noonan (created by Michael Hendricks);

Alo Nudger (created by John Lutz);

Fergus O'Breen (created by Anthony Boucher);

Freddie O'Neal (created by Catharine Dain);

Harry Orwell [television] (created by Howard Rodman);

Bridget O'Toole (created by Frank McConnell);

E.L. Oxman (created by John Lutz);

Lorraine Page (created by Lynda LaPlante);

Chance Perdue (created by Ross H. Spencer);

Ben Perkins (created by Rob Kantner);

Anna Peters (created by Janice Law);

Toby Peters (created by Stuart Kaminsky);

Nicholas Pierce (created by Rob MacGregor);

Joe Pike (created by Robert Crais);

Paul Pine (created by Howard Browne);

Evan Pinkerton (created by David Frome);

Duke Pizzatello (created by Robert Leslie Bellem);

J. Pletcher (created by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.);

Marvia Plum (created by Richard A. Lupoff);

Nick Polo (created by Jerry Kenneally);

Rainbow Porter (created by Harlen Campbell);

Ralph Poteet (created by Loren Estleman);

Mark Preston (created by Peter Chambers);

Hank Prince (created by Philip Lee Williams);

Virgil Proctor (created by J.D. Knight);

Joe Puma (created by William Campbell Gault);

Chance Purdue (created by Ross H. Spencer);

John Quincannon (created by Bill Pronzini);

Hugh Quint (created by Steve Sherman);

Rafferty (created by W. Glenn Duncan);

Neal Rafferty (created by Chris Wiltz);

Gwenn Ramadge (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

John Rankin (created by James Grady);

Alex Rasmussen (created by David Daniel);

Easy Rawlins (created by Walter Mosley);

Joe Reddman (created by Warwick Downing);

Savannah Reid (created by G.A. McKevett);

Regan Reilly (created by Carol Higgins Clark);

Mark Renzler (created by Paul Engleman);

Slots Resnick (created by Michael Geller);

Michael Rineheart (created by John Birkett);

Harry Rice (created by Allan Pedrazas);

Matt Riordan (created by Frederick Huebner);

Lil Ritchie (created by Phyllis Knight);

Ed Rivers (created by Talmadge Powell);

Mitch Roberts (created by Gaylord Dold);

Yvonne Robinson (created by Peter Whalley);

Jim Rockford (created by Stuart Kaminsky);

Joe Rogers (created by Ross MacDonald);

Simon Rolfe (created by Joseph L. Bonney);

Dan Roman (created by Edward Mathis);

Tony Rome (created by Marvin H. Albert);

Taggert Roper (created by William Sanders);

Jack Ross (created by Bernard Schopen);

Kelly Ryan (created by Kate Grilley);

Oscar Sail (created by Lester Dent);

Albert Samson (created by Michael Z. Lewin);

Jake Samson (created by Shelley Singer);

Jake Sands (created by Ron Ely);

Vonna Saucier (created by J. Madison Davis):

Mark Savage (created by Laurence Payne);

Saxon (created by Les Roberts);

Catherine Sayler (created by Linda Grant);

Lenny Schneider (created by Ed Goldberg);

Pete Scholfield (created by Thomas Blanchard Dewey);

Shell Scott (created by Richard S. Prather);

Matthew Scudder (created by Lawrence Block);

Mavis Seidlitz  (created by Carter Brown);

The Shadow (created by Maxwell Grant);

"Deets" Shanahan (created by Ronald Tierney);

Nick Sharman (created by Mark Timlin);

Desiree Shapiro (created by Selma Eichler);

Jim Shaw (created by Isidore Haiblum);

Paul Shaw (created by Mark Sadler);

Michael Shayne (created by Brett Halliday);

Kate Shugak (created by Dana Stabenow);

Phoebe Siegel (created by Sandra West Prowell);

Jacob Singer (created by George Baxt);

Bill Smith (created by S.J. Rozan);

Dan Smith (creaed by Penny Warner);

Truman Smith (created by Bill Crider);

Aristotle Plato "Soc" Socarides (created by Paul Kemprecos);

Lupe Solano (created by Caroline Garcia-Aguilera);

Sam Spade (created by Dashiell Hammett);

Philip Spence (created by Jerry Jenkins);

Spenser (created by Robert B. Parker);

Michael Spraggue (created by Linda Barnes);

Quin St. James (created by T.J. MacGregor);

Jeremiah St. John (created by William Babula);

Robert Stark (created by Mark Schorr);

T.D. Stash (created by W.R. Philbrick);

Rocky Steele (created by John B. West);

Nick Stefanos (created by George P. Pelecanos);

Wish Stephenson (created by Dianne Day);

Fleming Stone (created by Carolyn Wells);

Harry Stoner (created by Jonathan Valin);

Wyatt Storme (created by W.L. Ripley);

Donald Strachey (created by Richard Stevenson);

Streeter (created by Michael Stone);

Dave Strickland (created by Thomas D. Davis);

C.W. Sughrue (created by James Crumley);

Harry Summers (created byPeter Whalley);

Loren Swift (created by Doug Hornig);

Taggett (created by Thomas Bailey Aldrich);

Alex Tanner (created by Anabel Donald);

John Marshall Tanner (created by Stephen Greenleaf);

Fred Taylor (created by Nicholas Kilmer);

Holland Taylor (created by David Housewright);

Thorn (created by James W. Hall);

Max Thursday (created by Wade Miller);

Art Tobin (created by John Lutz);

Mitch Tobin (created by Tucker Coe);

Moroni Traveler (created by Robert Irvine);

Gabe Treloar (created by John Roberts);

Bronwen Tryon, a Pinkerton operative (created by Miriam Grace Monfredo);

Dan Turner (created by Robert Leslie Bellem);

Milo Turner (created by Francis Nevins, Jr.);

Rick Vanning (created by M.V. Heberden);

Amos Walker (created by Loren D. Estleman);

Talba "Baroness Pontalba" Wallis (created by Julie Smith);

Walsh (created by Ed Gorman);

V.I. Warshowski (created by Sara Paretsky);

"Doghouse" Washington (created by Jim Dawson);

Leo Waterman (created by G.M. Ford);

Sheridan Wesley (created by Hillary Waugh);

Delilah West (created by Maxine O'Callaghan);

Honey West (created by Skip and Gloria Fickling);

Paul Whelan (created by Michael Raleigh);

Whistler (created by Robert Campbell);

Blackie White (created by Philip Johnson);

Race Williams (by Carroll John Daly);

Luke Williamson (created by James D. Brewer);

Moses Wine (created by Roger Simon);

Stuart Winter (created by Alan Russell);

Stuart Winters (created by Alan Russell);

Pennington "Penny" Wise (created by Carolyn Wells);

Nero Wolfe (created by Rex Stout);

Gil Yates (created by Alistair Boyle);

Cecil Younger (created by John Straley).

Tommy Beresford (created by Agatha Christie);

Tuppence Beresford (created by Agatha Christie);

Johnny Black (created by Neville Steed);

Sexton Blake (created by Harry Blyth);

Everard Blatchington (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Bowling (created by Donald Henderson);

Kate Brannigan (created by Val McDermid);

"Slim" Callaghan (created by Peter Cheyney);

James Carrick (created by Margaret Duffy);

Carver (created by Victor Canning);

Lemmy Caution (created by Peter Cheyney);

Nick Duffy (created by Dan Kavanaugh);

Laura Flynn (created by Lesley Grant-Adamson);

Norman Glide (created by Moray Dalton);

Cordelia Gray (created by P.D. James);

Sid Halley (created by Dick Francis);

Ron Hoggert (created by James Mitchell);

Mycroft Holmes (created by Quinn Fawcett);

Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Sherlock Holmes ("created" by Michael Dibdin);

Sherlock Holmes ("created" by Loren D. Estleman);

Sherlock Holmes ("created" by L.B. Greenwood);

Sherlock Holmes ("created" by Larry Millet);

Jimmy Jenner (created by John Milne);

Jack Kiley (created by John Harvey);

Harry Lambert (created by Jill McGown);

Gilbert Larose (created by Arthur Gask);

Anna Lee (created by Liza Cody);

Teddy London (created by Robert Morgan);

the Lunghi family, multi-generational private investigation firm (created by Michael Z. Lewin);

Joanna MacKenzie (created by Margaret Duffy);

Saz Martin (created by Stella Duffy);

Arthur Martinson (created by Cortland Fitzsimmons);

Francis McNab (created by John A. Ferguson);

Scott Mitchell (created by John Harvey);

William Monk (created by Anne Perry);

Mr. Mycroft (created by H.F. Heard);

Mark Peterson (created by Peter Chambers);

Laura Principal (created by Michelle Spring);

Bernie Pryde (created by P.D. James);

Mark Raeburn (created by Malcolm Gair);

John Raven [British] (created by Donald MacKenzie);

John Samson (created by Miles Tripp);

Nick Sharman (created by Mark Timlin);

Christopher Shovelin (created by Julian Rathbone);

Joe Sixsmith (created by Reginald Hill);

Nigel Strangeways (created by Nicholas Blake);

The Old Man in the Corner (created by Baroness Orczy);

Philip Trent (created by E.C. Bentley);

Sam Turner (created by John Baker);

Fran Varaday (created by Ann Granger);

Mr. Verity (created by Peter Antony);

Larry Vernon (created by David Bateson);

Wendover (created by J.J. Connington);

Winter (created by Gwendoline Butler);

Hannah Wolfe (created by Sarah Dunant).

Joe Dust (created by Lord Gorell);

Paul Beck, the "Rule-of-Thumb Detective" [Ireland] (created by M. McDonnell Bodkin);

John Blaine [Ireland] (created by Vincent Banville);

Richard Browning [Australia] (created by Peter Corris);

Benny Cooperman [Canada] (created by Howard Engel);

Fritz Donhoff, the partner of Pierre-Ange Sawyer [France] (created by Marvin H. Albert);

Hob Draconian [Spain] (created by Robert Sheckley);

C. Auguste Dupin [France] (created by Edgar Allan Poe);

C. Auguste Dupin [France] ("created" by George Egon Hatvary);

Marcus Didius Falco [Ancient Rome] (created by Lindsey Davis);

Syd Fish [Australia] (created by Susan Geason);

Jules Giraud [France] (created by John T. Lescroart);

Lonia Guiu [Spain] (created by Maria-Antonia Oliver);

Bernard Gunther [Germany] (created by Philip Kerr);

Cliff Hardy [Australia] (created by Peter Corris);

Jantarro [Canada] (created by Simon Ritchie);

Kemal Kayankaya [Turkish in Germany] (created by Jakob Arjouni);

Meg Lacey [Canada] (created by Elizabeth Bowers);

Monsieur Lecoq [France] (created by Emile Gaboriau);

John Locke [Canada] (created by Jack Barnao);

Auguste Lupa [France] (created by John T. Lescroart);

Frank MacAllister [Brazil] (created by Ritchie Perry);

William Murdoch [Canada] (created by Maureen Jennings);

Dora Myrl [Ireland] (created by M. McDonnell Bodkin);

Byron "Rugger" O’Toole [Central America] (created by Robert Thurston);

Mel Pickett [Canada] (created by Eric Wright);

Norman Pink [Australia] (created by Mark McShane);

Hercule Poirot [Belgium] (created by Agatha Christie);

Hercules Popeau [France] (created by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes);

Caitlin Reece [Canada] (created by Lauren Wright Douglas);

Inspector John Sanders [Canada] (created by Medora Sale);

Desmond Shannon [Ireland] (created by M.V. Heberden);

Pierre-Ange "Pete" Sawyer, an expatriate American who specializes in cases involving other expatriates [France] (created by Marvin H. Albert).

Hector Belascoaran Shayne [Mexico] (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II);

Rich O. Shea [Canada] (created by Douglas Newell);

Pere Tabaret [France] (created by Emile Gaboriau);

Claudia Valentine [Australia] (created by Marele Day);

Eugene Valmont [France] (created by Robert Barr);

Steve Wayne [Pacific Rim] (created by Terry Harknett);

Matt West [Canada] (created by Rosemary Aubert).

Lucy Hamilton (created by Brett Halliday);

Miss Sanderson (created by E.X. Giroux);

Della Street (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Velda (created by Mickey Spillane);

Simon Bogner, British, Board of Trade Investigator (created by Tim Heald);

David Brandstetter (created by Joseph Hanson);

Julian "Digger" Burroughs (created by Warren Murphy);

Montague Cork (created by Macdonald Hastings);

Jefferson DiMarco (created by Doris Miles Disney);

Carroll Dorsey (created by Thomas Lipinski);

Colleen Fitzgerald (created by Barbara Johnson);

Stanley Hastings, an investigative photographer for a lawyer specializing in negligence cases (created by Parnell Hall);

Henderson (created by Douglas Angus);

Dylan Klein (created by Reed Farrell Coleman);

Andrew Laird [Scottish] (created by Robert MacLeod);

Hobart Lindsay (created by Richard Lupoff);

Major Milo March (created by M.E. Chaber);

Rex McBride (created by Cleve F. Adams);

Bredon Miles (created by Ronald A. Knox);

Lora Montgomery (created by Joan Banks);

John Piper (created by Harry Carmichael);

Jim Savage, a retired claims investigator (created by R.W. Heber);

Stanley Starfish (created by Sam Leonard).

Devlin Tracy (created by Warren B. Murphy);

John Weiss (created by Joan Smith).

Timothy Cane, a private investigator specializing in Wall Street cases (created by Lawrence Sanders);

Kane Jackson (created by Michael Collins);

Mark Kilby investigator for Regal Investment Security Corporation (created by Robert Caine Frazer);

Devlin Kirk, owner of an industrial surveillance company (created by Rex Burns);

Murray Kirk, a financial investigator (created by Stanley Ellin);

Paul Marston (created by Robert Eversy);

Piers Roper, an industrial spy (created by Ken Follett);

Catherine Sayler, an undercover operative at a software company (created by Linda Grant);

Peter Tangent, an investigator for an oil company (created by Lawrence Sanders).

Lily Bennett, owner of a security firm (created by Marne Davis Kellogg);

Roman Cantrell, a security expert (created by Elaine Raco Chase);

David Cleveland, an investigator for the Jocky Club (created by Dick Francis);

Joe Crow, a bodyguard (created by Pete Hautman);

Jack Devlin, a security investigator (created by John Clarkson);

Jack Dwyer, a part-time security guard (created by Ed Gorman);

Dave "The Monkey Man" Enamorado, part-owner of a security firm (created by Hialeah Jackson);

Meg Gillis, part-owner of a security-systems business (created by C.J. Songer);

Harding (created by John Wessel);

Annabelle Hardy, part-owner of a security firm (created by Hialeah Jackson);

Tim Lacey, the owner of a security firm [British] (created by Derek Wilson);

John Locke [Canada] (created by Jack Barnao);

Peggy O'Neill, a campus police officer (created by M.D. Lake);

Anna Peters, a security expert (created by Janice Law);

Paul Scott, a security expert (created by Michael Collins);

Joanna Stark, a security expert for art museums (created by Marcia Muller).

Jane Whitefield, an expert on changing identities (created by Thomas Perry);

Charlie Willis, a security agent for the entertainment industry (created by Lee Goldberg);

Eva Wylie, a security guard (created by Liza Cody);

Don Cadee, security officer for Amblett's Department Store (created by Spencer Dean);

Detective Peter Diamond (created by Peter Lovesey);

Quint McCauley, head of security at Hauser's Department Store (created by D. C. Brod).

Am Caulfield (created by Alan Russell);

Jake Hatch, known as a womanizer (created by Robert Campbell).

Ernie Bascom (created by Martin Limon);

John Francis Cuddy, a former military policeman (created by Jeremiah Healy);

Alphonse Dantan, an investigator for the Finance Office U.S. Army Paris (created by Hannah Blank);

Major Kara Guidry (created by Lucian K. IV Truscott);

Captain Julia Havilland, army intelligence corps (created by Tom Bradby);

Hermann Kohler, a Gestapo investigator (created by J. Robert Janes);

Captain Thomas Maynard, post-Civil War America (created by Donald Hoenig);

Jack Reacher, a former military policeman (created by Lee Child);

George Sueno (created by Martin Limon);

Webb Carrick, with the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (created by Bill Knox);

Venus Diamond, federal fish and wildlife agent (created by Skye Kathleen Moody);

Henry Dyer, a former fish and game agent (created by Raymond H. Ring);

Doc Ford, a marine biologist (created by Randy W. White);

Neil Hamel (created by Judith Van Gieson);

Kevin Kerney, a seasonal forest ranger (created by Michael McGarrity);

Dominica "Dee" Laguerre (created by Kirk Mitchell);

Henry Lightstone, an agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (created by Ken Goddard);

Lauren Maxwell, a wildlife investigator (created by Elizabeth Quinn);

Joe Pickett, a game warden (created by C. J. Box);

Anna Pigeon, National Parks ranger (created by Nevada Barr);

Dirk Pitt, a director of the National Underwater-Marine Agency (created by Clive Cussler);

Rachel Porter, a wildlife agent (created by Jessica Speart);

Jack Prester, National Park Service Investigator (created by Sandy Dengler);

Grady Service, a conservation officer (created by Joseph Heywood);

Julie Tendler, National Parks ranger (created by Aaron J. Elkins).

Thorn, a private investigator with an interest in environmental cases (created by James W. Hall).

Mici Anhalt, an investigator for the Crime Victims Compensation Board (created by ?);

Simon Bogner, British, Board of Trade Investigator (created by Tim Heald);

Humphrey Campbell, an investigator in the Los Angeles missing persons bureau (created by Geoffrey Homes);

Charlie Carr, a U.S. Treasury agent (created by Gerald Petievich);

Michael Connolly, intelligence officer with the Manhattan Project (created by Joseph Kanon);

Talos Cord, a troubleshooter for the United Nations (created by Robert MacLeod);

Ray Crawley, a director of the Federal Security Agency [Australia] (created by Peter Corris);

Jack Devlin, a former Secret Service agent (created by John Clarkson);

Neal Donahoe, the harbormaster for Santa Barbara (created by Tony Gibbs);

Jack Donne, a retired Treasury agent (created by William Relling, Jr.);

Jack Fowler, a D.E.A. agent (created by Paul Malone);

Jack Kelly, a U.S. Treasury agent (created by Gerald Petievich);

Steven Kirk (created by Doug Hornig);

David Madden, a postal inspector (created by Doris Miles Disney);

Sharon McCone, a legal investigator (created by Marcia Mueller);

Meredith Mitchell, a British foreign office official (created by Ann Granger);

Roy Rickman, an administrative officer in the Home Office [Great Britain] (created by David Craig);

Nan Robinson, a state bar investigator (created by Taffy Cannon);

Jack Sparks, special agent of the Queen [Great Britain] (created by Mark Frost);

Francesca Wilson, an analyst in the British Department of Trade and Industry (created by Janet Neel);

Sam Windrush, a deputy in the United Nations legal affairs department (created by Grant Sutherland).

Grace Wu, an undercover agent for the DEA (created by Gaylord Dold).

Eddie Burke (created by Peter Lance);

Mac Fontana (created by Earl Emerson);

Chet Johnston, a former firefighter (created by Joel Helgerson);

Phil Moony, a former firefighter (created by Paul Engleman);

Ben Pedley (created by Stewart Sterling).

Simon Alcourt-St. James (created by Elizabeth George);

George Barnabas (created by Claire Rayner);

Joanne Blalock (created by Leonard Goldberg);

Inspector Victor Bondurant (created by James G. Edwards);

Smokey Brandon (created by Noreen Ayres);

John Lloyd Branson (created by D.R. Meredith);

Temperance "Tempe" Brennan (created by Kathy Reichs);

Andy Broussard (created by D.J. Donaldson);

Phil Chen (created by Mark Munger);

Helen Clyde, a pathologist's assistant (created by Elizabeth George);

Daniel Webster Coffee (created by Lawrence Blochman);

Jessica Coran (created by Robert W. Walker);

John Cranston (created by Paul Harding);

Gerritt DeGraff (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Stuff Driscoll (created by Rufus King);

Lucas Frank, a forensic psychologist (created by John Philpin);

Dr. Frock, a forensic anthropologist (created by Douglas Preston);

Horatio Glass, a police surgeon (created by John Rhode and Carter Dickson);

P.J. Gray, a profiler (created by Shirley Kennett);

Dr. Tony Hill, a criminologist (created by Val McDermid);

Primrose Holland, an ex-pathologist (created by Jo Bannister);

Sara Linton (created by Karin Slaughter);

Calisto Marley (created by Bill Pomidor);

Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist (created by Ridley Pearson);

Amanda Maxwell, a forensic photographer (created by Doris Mortman);

Elizabeth McPherson, a forensic anthropologist (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Maris Middleton (created by Kaye Davis);

Motilal Mookerji (created by Lawrence G. Blochman);

Hugh Morris, a crimonologist (created by William Targ and Lewis Herman);

Bill Mullins (created by Jeffrey Denhart);

Kiernan O'Shaughnessy (created by Susan Dunlap);

Quincy [television (created by ?);

Kit Quinn, a police psychiatrist (created by Nicci French);

Lincoln Rhyme (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Samantha "Sam" Ryan (created by Nigel McCrery);

Kay Scarpatta (created by Patricia Cornwall);

Michael Stone, a female forensic psychologist (created by Anna Salter);

Sylvia Strange, a forensic psychologist (created by Sarah Lovett);

John Thorndyke (created by R. Austin Freeman);

Samantha Turner (created by Marsha Landreth).

Daniel Barr (created by Malcolm McPherson);

Judge Dee [China] (created by Robert van Gulik);

Sir John Fielding (created by Bruce Alexander);

Deborah Knott (created by Margaret Maron);

Ephraim Peck (created by August Derleth);

Ellis Portal, a former judge (created by Rosemary Aubert);

Judge Prentiss (created by Veronica Parker Johns);

William Priest (created by Irvin S. Cobb);

Richard Quinn (created by Phillip Margolin);

Henry Tyson (created by Frederic Arnold Kummer);

Venetia Aldredge (created by P.D. James);

Joseph Antonelli;

Tom Aragon (created by Margaret Millar);

Robert Audley (created by M.E. Braddon);

Jack S. Bard, a defense attorney (created by Warwick Downing);

Stone Barrington (created by Stuart Woods);

Paul Biegler, a defense attorney who was once a prosecutor (created by Robert Traver);

Franklin Blake (created by Wilkie Collins);

Mark "The Counselor" Brand (created by J.J. Connington);

John Lloyd Branson (created by D.R. Meredith);

Ernst Brendel, a Viennese attorney (created by J.C. Masterman);

Gervase Bret (created by Edward Marston);

Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer (created by John Grisham);

Andrew Broom (created by Ralph McInerney);

Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who, with Sisyphean doggedness, prosecutes Perry Mason's clients (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Patrick Butler, a defense attorney (created by John Dickson Carr);

Harry Cain (created by D. Kincaid);

Seth Cameron (created by John Martel);

Victor Carl (created by William Lashner);

A.B. Carr (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Judy Carrier, a defense attorney (created by Lisa Scottoline);

Geoffrey Chadwick [Quebec, Canada] (created by Edward O. Phillips);

Nicholas Chirke (created by P.C. Doherty);

Marlene Ciampi, an assistant district attorney (created by R. Tannenbaum);

Joshua Clunk (created by Christianna Brand);

Larry Cohen, an assistant district attorney (created by E.V. Cunningham);

Gail Conner (created by Barbara Parker);

Dade Cooley, a defense attorney (created by Gene Thompson);

Alexandra Cooper, an assistant district attorney (created by Linda Fairstein);

Ken Corning, a district attorney (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Brady Coyne (created by created by William G. Tapply);

Crang [Canada] (created by Jack Batten);

Arthur Crook (created by Anthony Gilbert);

Mike Daley, a defense attorney (created by Sheldon Siegel);

Josh De Burke, a proesecutor (created by Dave Pedneau);

Harry Devlin (created by Martin Edwards);

India Devlin, a prosecuting attorney (created by Mariah Stewart);

Laura DiPalma (created by Lia Matera);

Matty Donahue (created by Patricia Frieder);

Mark Dooher (created by John Lescoart);

John Doowinkle, a district attorney (created by Harry Klingsberg);

Ben Driskill (created by Thomas Gifford);

Tubby Dubonnet (created by Tony Dunbar);

Jesse Falkenstein, a defense attorney (created by Elizabeth Linnington);

Nina Fischman (created by Marissa Piesman);

Dixie Flannigan (created by Chris Rogers);

James Fleming, an Irish solicitor (created by Ann C. Fallon);

Arlene Flynn, a district attorney (created by H. Paul Jeffers);

Robert Forsythe, a British barrister (created by E.X. Giroux);

Jeremiah X. "Gibby" Gibson, an assistant district attorney (created by Hampton Stone);

Rachel Gold (created by Michael A. Kahn);

Sheldon A. Gold, a defense attorney (created by Terry Devane);

Peter Hale, a public defender (created by Philip Margolin);

Kirk Halstead (created by Evelyn Berckman);

Neil Hamil (created by Judith Van Gieson);

"Bomber" Hanson (created by David Champion);

Dismas Hardy (created by John T. Lescroart);

Alec Hathorne, a lawyer specializing in aviation cases (created by Stephen Greenleaf);

Sharon Hays, a defense attorney (created by Sarah Gregory);

Dallas Henry (created by Preston Pairo III);

Gilmore Henry (created by Bruce Graeme);

Billy Bob Holland, a defense attorney (created by James Lee Burke);

Vicky Holden (created by Margaret Coel);

Matthew Hope (created by Ed McBain);

Adam Hull (created by John Grisham);

Jimmy James, a defense attorney with elastic ethics (created by Charles Lachman);

Cassandra Jameson (created by Carolyn Wheat);

Willa Jansson (created by Lia Matera);

Scott Jordan, a defense attorney (created by Harold Q. Masur);

Dmitri Kameron [Russia] (created by Michael Pearce);

Roger "Butch" Karp, chief of the criminal courts bureau (created by R. Tannenbaum);

Homer Kelly, a defense attorney (created by Jane Langton);

Lennox Kemp (created by M. R. D. Meek);

Jerry Kennedy, a defense attorney (created by George V. Higgins);

Christopher Kennet, a solicitor (created by John Mortimer);

Ben Kincaid (created by William Bernhardt);

Lucy Kingsley (created by Kate Charles);

Julia Larwood (created by Sarah Caudwell);

Jake Lassiter (created by Paul Levine);

Jack Lautrec, a defense attorney (created by Norman Zollinger);

Wynsome "Wyn" Lewis, a real-estate attorney (created by David A. Kaufelt);

Kate Logan (created by Christiane Heggan);

Annie MacPherson (created by Janet Smith);

Paul Madriani, a defense attorney (created by Steve Martini);

Antony Maitland, a defense attorney (created by Sara Woods);

John J. Malone, an unscrupulous defense attorney (created by Craig Rice);

Cyrus March, a defense attorney (created by Bill S. Ballinger);

Lupo Mardi, an Italian prosecutor (created by Magdalen Nabb);

John F. X. Markham, a district attorney (created by S.S. Van Dine);

Hezikiah Mason, the prosecutor who typically faced off against Ephraim Tutt (created by Arthur Train);

Perry Mason, a defense attorney (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Randolph Mason (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Mark McCoy (created by Wayne J. Keeley);

Amy McGuire, a district attorney (created by E.J. Gorman);

Sir Henry Merrivale, a defense attorney--especially in The Judas Window (created by John Dickson Carr);

David Middleton-Brown (created by Kate Charles);

Kate Milholland (created by Gini Hartzmark);

Steve Miller, an assistant U.S. attorney (created by Ken Englade);

Luis Montez (created by Manuel Ramos);

Lydia Ness, a defense attorney (created by Miriam Borgenicht);

Martha Nickerson, a district attorney (created by Rose Connors);

Ellen North, a district attorney (created by Tami Hoag);

Kali O'Brien (created by Jonnie Jacobs);

Mairead O’Clare, a defense attorney (created by Terry Devane);

Sean Olson, a defense attorney (created by Kevin O’Brien);

Gideon Page (created by Grif Stockley);

Christopher Paget (created by Richard North Patterson);

Karen Perry-Mondori (created by Catherine Arnold);

Bino Phillips (created by A.W. Gray);

Sheilah Quinn (created by Jeremiah Healy);

Lon Quinncannon, a defense attorney (created by Raymond Paul);

Joshua Rabb (created by Richard Parrish);

Oliver Rathbone (created by Anne Perry);

David Reddman, a prosecutor (created by Warwick Downing);

Nina Reilly (created by Perri O'Shaughnessy);

Noah Richards (created by Mary Morgan);

Marta Richter, a defense attorney (created by Lisa Scottoline);

Howard Rickover (created by Susan Wolfe);

Matt Riordan (created by Frederick D. Huebner);

Henry Rios, a defense attorney (created by Michael Nava);

Dan Robak, a defense attorney (created by Joe L. Hensley);

Randy Roberts (created by Carter Brown);

Benedetta Rosato, a lawyer specializing in police-brutality cases (created by Lisa Scottoline);

Nate Rosen, a lawyer specializing in civil rights cases (created by Ronald Levitsky);

Richard Rosenberg, a lawyer specializing in negligence cases (created by Parnell Hall);

Horace Rumpole (created by John Mortimer);

George Sansi [India] (created by Paul Mann);

Doug Selby, a district attorney (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Dan Sheridan (created by Barry Reed);

Charley Sloan (created by William Coughlin);

Charlie Spotted Moon (created by C.Q. Yarbro);

Gavin Stevens, a defense attorney (created by William Faulkner);

Dee Street (created by Hannah Wakefield);

Hilary Tamar (created by Sarah Caudwell);

John Marshall Tanner, an attorney who has stopped practicing (created by Stephen Greenleaf);

Michael Thompson (created by Philip Carlton Williams);

Judith Thornton, a deputy district attorney (created by Patricia D. Benke);

Ephraim Tutt (created by Arthur Train);

Lane Uttley (created by Steve Hamilton);

Martin Vail (created by William Diehl);

Alberto Verdugo (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo);

Peter Wade, a defense attorney (created by George V. Higgins);

Eric Ward, a solicitor (created by Roy Lewis);

Lily White, a defense attorney (created by Susan Isaacs);

John Wilkes, a defense attorney (created by W. Schoonover);

Steve Winslow (created by J.P. Hailey);

Jerry Zalman (created by Gabrielle Kraft).

Paul Drake (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Jimmy "Griff" Griffin (created by Preston Pairo III);

Tina Paris, an investigator in the New York Special Prosecutor’s Office (created by Linda Chase and Joyce St. George);

Susanna Pinscher, an investigator for the Justice Department (created by Margaret Truman);

Andy Rosenzweig, chief of investigations for the district attorney’s office (created by Philip Gourevitch);

Rusty Sabich, an investigator with a County Prosecutor's Office (created by Scott Turow);

Kate Shugak, a former investigator for the Anchorage district attorney's office who is now living in the far north (created by Dana Stabenow);

Patterson Starbuck, an investigator for a district attorney (created by Walter Walker).

Reuben Frost, a former lawyer on Wall Street (created by Haughton Murphy);

Dave Garrett, a disbarred attorney (created by Neil Albert);

Martin Hewitt, a former lawyer turned "sleuth" (created by Arthur Morrison);

Matt Riordan (created by Frederick Huebner);

Matt Sinclair, a former lawyer with a district attorney's office (created by Tony Kennelly);

Pete Wennick, a disbarred lawyer who now earns a living as a law clerk (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Anthony Whiting, a former lawyer (created by Pat Hewitt).

Marilee Jennings, a former court reporter (created by Tami Hoag).

Ben Johnson, a clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court (created by Brad Meltzer);

Pete Wennick, a disbarred lawyer who now earns a living as a law clerk (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Matilda Worthing, a retired court reporter (created by John Keith Drummond).

Ruby Dark (created by Bruce W. Most);

Martin Fender (created by Jesse Sublett);

Dixie Flannigan (created by Chris Rogers);

C.J. Floyd (created by Robert Greer);

Leo Guild (created by Ed Gorman);

Staphanie Plum (created by Janet Evanovitch);

Virgil Proctor (created by J.D. Knight);

Streeter (created by Michael Stone).

Loretta Kovacs (created by Anthony Bruno);

Frank Marvelli (created by Anthony Bruno).

Luke Dunlop [Australia] (created by Peter Corriss).

Daniel Kearney Associates, automobile repossession and skip-tracing company (created by Joe Gores);

Taffin, a debt collector (created by Lyndon Mallett).

a prototype in James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy;

James Burlane, a former C.I.A. agent (created by Richard Hoyt);

Neal Carey (created by Don Winslow);

Jeffrey Dean, a former C.I.A. agent (created by Wayne Warga);

"The November Man" Devereaux (created by Bill Granger);

Clifford Driscoll (created by William DeAndrea);

San Durrel (created by Edward Sidney Aarons);

Max Farne (created by Richard Butler);

Mike Flint, a retired CIA agent (created by Austin R. Healy);

Francis Xavier Flynn (created by Gregory MacDonald);

Henry Garrett, a retired C.I.A. operative (created by Gaylord Larsen);

Joaquin Hawkes (created by Bill Ballinger);

Matt Helm (created by Donald Hamilton);

Ed Jenkins (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Edwin Kreiss, a retired C.I.A. agent (created by P.T. Deutermann);

Richard Malcolm, an analyst for the C.I.A. (Created by James Grady);

Tiger Mann, a spy for a right-wing political group (created by Mickey Spillane);

Ed Nesbitt (created by John Ball);

Jane Nichols (created by Maureen Tan);

Blackford "Blacky" Oakes, a C.I.A. agent (created by William F. Buckley);

Michael Osbourne, a C.I.A. agent (created by Daniel Silva);

Dirk Pitt (created by Clive Cussler);

Mrs. Polifax (created by Dorothy Gilman);

Cameron Pryce, a Cia agent (created by Robert Ludlum);

Ronnie Ratajczak, a C.I.A. operative (created by Frank Deford);

Ben Reese, an ex-intelligence expert (created by Sally S. Wright);

Kelly Robinson [television--I Spy] (created by Sheldon Leonard);

Jack Ryan, an analyst for the C.I.A. (created by Tom Clancy);

Harry Ryder (created by Robert Footman);

Alexander Scott [television--I Spy] (created by Sheldon Leonard);

Sunny Sinclair (created by K. K. Beck);

Brad Smith, a part-time agent for the C.I.A. (Created by Jack Bickham);

Billie St. Clair (created by K. K. Beck);

Brian Stratford, a former C.I.A. agent (created by C. C. Risenhoover);

Elizabeth Stride, a former agent of the Israeli Mossad (created by John R. Maxim);

Sweetman (created by A. Denis Clift);

Tom Talley, a C.I.A. agent (created by Philip Ross);

Evan Tanner (created by Lawrence Block);

Fred Taylor, a former spy (created by Nicholas Kilmer);

Walker (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Peter Ward (created by David St. John, pseudonym of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt);

Remo "The Destroyer" Williams, a government "enforcer (created by Warren B. Murphy).

Tad Anders [Polish/British] (created by Ted Allbeaury);

Owen Archer, a spy for an archbishop in Wales [Medieval] (created by Candace M. Robb);

James Asher;

Peter Ashton (created by Clive Egleton);

David Audley (created by Anthony Price);

Stephen Bellecroix (created by David Craig);

Modesty Blaise (created by Peter O'Donnell);

James Bond (created by Ian Fleming);

James Bond (continued by John Gardner);

Gene Bradley [British television--The Adventurer];

Adam Breck (created by Kenneth Orvis);

Eddie Brown (created by Joyce Porter);

Paul Chavasse (created by Martin Fallon);

Hugh Corbett [Medieval] (created by P.C. Doherty);

Datchery (created by Charles Dickens);

Mr. Dee (created by Desmond Cory);

Alessandro Di Ganzarello (created by Ivor Drummond);

Sean Dillon (created by Jack Higgins);

Johnny Fedora (created by Desmond Cory);

David Garnett (created by Clive Egleton);

Patrick Gillard (created by Margaret Duffy);

Richard Graham (created by John Welcome);

Alastair Granby (created by Francis Beeding);

Tommy Hambledon (created by Manning Coles);

Jane Hildreth (created by Michael Spicer);

Matthew Jenkyn [Renaissance Period] (created by P.C. Doherty);

Helen Johnson, a former agent (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Michael Kingston (created by Manning Coles), especially Drink to Yesterday and Toast to Tomorrow;

Herbie Kruger (created by John Gardner);

Tim Lacey, a former Sas officer (created by Derek Wilson);

Ingrid Langley (created by Margaret Duffy);

Charles Latimer (created by Eric Ambler);

Peter Lawson (created by Melvin Bolton);

Alec Leamas (created by John Le Carre);

Ernst Lohmann [German/British] (created by Jack Gerson);

Auguste Lupa (created by John T. Lescroart);

Peter Marlow (created by Joseph Hone);

Desmond Merrion (created by Miles Burton);

Charlie Muffin (created by Brian Freemantle);

Joe Narrabone (created by Michael Gilbert);

Jennifer Norrington (created by Ivor Drummond);

Boysie Oakes (created by John Gardner);

Gerald Otley (created by Martin Waddell);

James Packard (created by Robert C. Galway);

Luke Pagan [British] (created by Michael Gilbert);

Harry Palmer (created by Len Deighton);

Philis (created by Ritchie Perry);

Emily Pollifax (created by Dorothy Gilman);

Appleton "Apple" Porter [Australia] (created by Marc Lovell);

Inspector Prike [India] (created by Lawrence Blochman);

Quayle (created by Peter Cheyney);

Rupert Quinn (created by Alan Williams);

Sheila Roath (created by David Craig);

Sean Ryan (created by Brian Cleeve);

Bernard Samson (created by Len Deighton);

Harry Seddall (created by J.K. Mayo);

Esmonde Shaw (created by Philip McCutchan);

Dorian Silk (created by Simon Harvester);

Arthur Abdel Simpson (created by Eric Ambler);

George Smiley (created by John Le Carre);

Roger Tallis (created by John Rossiter);

John Tibbett (created by Laurence Payne);

Derek Torry (created by John Gardner);

Trout (created by Desmond Cory);

Coleridge Tucker III (created by Ivor Drummond);

Tweed (created by Colin Forbes);

T.S. Weaver (created by David Keith), especially A Matter of Iodine;

Jonas Wilde (created by Andrew Yorke);

Michael Wyman, an agent for M16 (created by Desmond Cory)

Simon Young (created by John Trenhaile).

Tad Anders [Polish/British] (created by Ted Allbeaury);

Michael Archer, an ex-spy from Russia (where he was known as Michael Kossoff) turned private investigator (created by Dianne Day);

Canaletto [Italy--to Great Britain] (created by Janet Laurence);

Samson Clairval [France] (created by Francis Didelot);

Ray Crawley, Director of the Federal Security Agency [Australia] (created by Peter Corris);

DeBath [France] (created by Jean Bruce);

Liam Devlin, an I.R.A. agent [Ireland] (created by Jack Higgins);

I.A. Moto [Japan] (created by John P. Marquand);

Garth Owen, head of the secret police [Egypt] (created by Michael Pearce).

Elizabeth Stride, a former agent of the Mossad [Israel] (created by John R. Maxim).

Cordelia Morgan (created by B. Reese Johnson);

Henry Park (created by Chang-rae Lee).

Mick Ballou, an Irish mobster (created by Lawrence Block);

Beano Bates, a grifter (created by Stephen J. Cannell);

Paul Benjamin, a vigilante murderer (created by Brian Garfield);

Angela Biwaban, a former embezzler (created by J.F. Trainor);

Ernest Bisham, a BBC announcer who moonlights as a burglar (created by Donald Henderson);

Blackshirt, a "cracksman" (created by Bruce Graeme);

Modesty Blaise, head of the crime organization the Network (created by Peter O'Donnell);

"The Blue Mask" (created by Anthony Morton);

Lew Brady, a planner of daring heists (created by Donald Westlake);

Monty Brogan, a drug dealer (created by David Benioff);

Smiler Bunn, a gentleman-thief (created by Bertram Atkey);

Burke, a reformed con in New York City (created by Andrew Vachss);

Neal Carey, a former pick-pocket turned private investigator (created by Don Winslow);

Colonel Clay (created by Grant Allen);

Hamilton Cleek, a "master thief" (created by Thomas W. Hanshew);

Hedgeclipper Clinton (created by Simon Brett);

Keyhole Crabbe (created by Simon Brett);

Jimmie Dale, New York City "cracksman" (created by Frank L. Packard);

Dave Delano, a scam artist (created by Philip Kerr);

Constantine Dix (created by Barry Pain);

Dorrington (created by Arthur Morrison);

John Dortmunder, a thief (created by Donald E. Westlake);

Philip Fletcher, a professional killer (created by Simon Shaw);

Brian Flynn, an I.R.A. terrorist (created by Nelson DeMille);

Socrates Fortlow, an ex-con (created by Walter Mosley);

Felix Freer, a thief (created by E.X. Ferrars);

Captain Gault, a smuggler (created by William Hope Hodgson);

The Infallible Godahl (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Alan Grofield, a bank robber (created by Richard Stark);

Denton Hake, a rapist (created by Thomas Baum);

Ed Jenkins, the Phantom Crook (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Jeye, a jewel thief (created by Desmond Cory);

Tim Kearney, a three-time felon who agrees to impersonate a dope smuggler for the DEA (created by Don Winslow);

Keller, a hit-man (created by Lawrence Block);

"Notorious Sophie" Lang (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Doug Lord, a thief (created by Maxine O'Callaghan);

Lovejoy, a forger (created by Jonathan Gash);

Luellen, a thief (created by John Sandford);

Lugg, a reformed thief (created by Margery Allingham);

Arsene Lupin, a "gentleman burglar" (created by Maurice Leblanc);

Mackin, a petty criminal (created by Patrick Quinn);

Peter Macklin, an enforcer for organized crime (created by Loen D. Estleman);

Dan Mallet, a poacher (created by Frank Parrish);

Munch Mancini, a former prostitute and junkie (created by Barbara Seranella);

John "The Baron" Mannering, a reformed gentleman thief (created by Anthony Morton);

Graham Marshall, a serial murderer (created by Simon Brett);

Truffler Mason (created by Simon Brett);

Rex McBride (created by Cleve Franklin Adams);

Susan Melville, a "retired" assassin-for-hire (created by Evelyn Smith);

Frank Nolan, a professional thief (created by Max Allan Collins);

Joseph Packer, an art thief (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Mr. Pargeter, a deceased crook (created by Simon Brett);

Parker, a professional thief (created by Richard Stark);

Philis, a Brazilian smuggler (created by Ritchie Perry);

Victor "Vic" Plotz (created by Stephen Dobyns);

Charles Pol, the Marxist bandit (created by Alan Williams);

Daniel Port, a hoodlum trying to reform himself (created by Peter Rabe);

Romney Pringle, a thief posing as a literary agent (created by Clifford Ashdown);

Quarry, a Midwestern hitman (created by Max Allan Collins);

A.J. Raffles, an incorrigible and perhaps amoral rascal (created by E.W. Hornung);

Bernie Rhodenbarr, a bookseller/burglar (created by Lawrence Block);

the Roag Syndicate (created by George Davis);

Runyon, a thief (created by Joe Gores);

Richard Henry Sampson (created by Richard Hull);

The Shadow, a jewel thief (created by Nora Roberts);

Sir Roger Shallot (created by Michael Clynes);

Arthur Abdel Simpson, irrepressible petty criminal (created by Eric Ambler);

John Smythe, an art forger and thief (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Nicholas Snow, an art thief (created by Lue Zimmelman);

Bob "The Nailer" Swagger, a sniper (created by Stephen Hunter);

Simon Templar, the "Saint" (created by Leslie Charteris);

John Tibbett, a petty thief (created by Laurence Payne);

Milo Turner, a con-man (created by Francis Nevins, Jr.);

Vautrin [France] (created by Honore de Balzac);

Nick Velvet (created by Edward D. Hoch);

Adam Worth, a thief (created by Martin Page);

Wyatt, an Australian bank robber (created by Max A. Collins, Jr.).

A prototype in Philip MacDonald's Mystery of the Dead Police.

The Deaf Man (created by Ed McBain);

Fu Manchu (created by Sax Rohmer);

Goldfinger (created by Ian Fleming);

The Kardinal, an assassin (created by R.J. Pinero);

Prince Wu Ling, head of the Brotherhood of the Yellow Beetle (created by Harry Blyth);

The Master Criminal (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Professor James Moriarty (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Professor James Moriarty ("created" by Michael Kurland);

Dr. No (created by Ian Fleming);

Dr. Huxton Rymer, a former surgeon (created by Harry Blyth);

Su-Muru (created by Sax Rohmer);

Dandy Jack Westman (created by Philip Daniels).